According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the coal sector added only 1,000 jobs from October 2016 through June 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the coal sector added only 1,000 jobs from October 2016 through June 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/pruitt-epa-coal-jobs-exaggerate/529311/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/pruitt-... (You can click through the links to see the raw data, but the article provides important context.) The coal sector employs only around 50,000 people, so the added jobs represent a 2% increase. And it is unclear how much of that was a result of, or even encouraged by, Trump's policies. We do know one thing though: most of those jobs are being replaced by, or will soon be replaced by, natural gas mining jobs. Coal as a whole is a dying industry and cannot be "saved" by killing a few regulations.