While both major party candidates for governor in West Virginia continue to blame Obama administration regulations, a new study provides still more expert evidence that competition from cheap natural gas is a much larger factor in the decline of West Virginia’s coal industry.
The boom in natural gas from hydraulic fracturing in shale-gas regions like West Virginia’s Marcellus Shale has driven the decline in coal production in the United States during the last decade, according to the new scientific paper from researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
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The boom in natural gas from hydraulic fracturing in shale-gas regions like West Virginia’s Marcellus Shale has driven the decline in coal production in the United States during the last decade, according to the new scientific paper from researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-b...epa-experts-say-gas-to-blame-for-coal-decline
