This is from memory and may be off, but I recently read somewhere that in the UK coal went from 70% of power to 3% in something like 30 years. Politically I gue

This is from memory and may be off, but I recently read somewhere that in the UK coal went from 70% of power to 3% in something like 30 years. Politically I guess it must have withered away. Also, WV is stereotypically coal country, but isn't a lot of coal mining now done via open pit mining out west, like Wyoming? Not sure that's closely divided or matters much for the Presidential elections.