Speaking of Revamping Coal Mines, Check Out This Federal Prison
- Clinton says she'll help repurpose coal land as president
- U.S. coal mining jobs are the fewest in at least three decades
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As part of her $30 billion proposal to help towns hit hard by coal’s collapse, U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she’d help to revive the “prime real estate” of shut coal mines and coal-fired power plants.
Some of that’s already happening as the coal industry faces its worst downturn in decades. As Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, mentioned in her plan released Thursday, Google’s building a data center at the site of a coal plant in Jackson County, Alabama. One old mine in West Virginia has been turned into a golf course, and another’s a prison.