AP FACT CHECK: Bloomberg says he's killing coal. He's not
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg broadly, repeatedly ” and wrongly ” took a huge amount of credit Friday for driving the U.S. coal industry to its knees.The U.S. coal industry’s plunge is largely due to market forces, above all drops in prices of natural gas and renewable energy that have made costlier coal-fired power plants much less competitive for electric utilities. A new federal reportreaffirms that longstanding consensus among experts. […]
