stake. reporter: it really is. what s at stake, dana, is the ability to land lock states to get up to 2.5 billion tons of their coal to foreign markets. that means thousands of jobs. also, hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to those states. now, two of the states are wyoming and montana. officials, they re among sick states suing washington over denial of a coal terminal at the port of long view. the pun river base is the largest coal deposit in the entire country and supplies 40% of the u.s. coal needs right now. but domestic coal use is dropping, making exports critical to the future of the industry. we re already exporting some, but we re really capped out because we have to take the coal we re mining through british columbia. there s only so much capacity there. reporter: the lawsuit says washington is violating the commerce clause of the constitution by interfering with other states ability to do
analysts predict u.s. coal experts will grow by 10 to 15 million-tons in coming year. this as japan struggles to rebuild and relies more on oil, natural gas and coal. they will turn to their traditional suppliers like the indonesian and australians for some of the coal needs. over time, as not only japan s coal demand increases but also asian countries coal increases, there will be a place for u.s. coal in the markets. even if u.s. coal suppliers project gains they see increasing environmental regulations by the obama administration, which revoked mining purposes in west virginia and kentucky and granting expansion. the coal jobs are red, white and blue jobs. industry insiders press for bigger output, the national mining association estimates 50,000 new coal miners will be needed to meet increase demand and replace retiring miners in the coming years. in pennsylvania, molly line, fox news. bret: in a report obtained by the associated press, the interior
production. analysts predict u.s. coal experts will grow by 10 to 15 million-tons in coming year. this as japan struggles to rebuild and relies more on oil, natural gas and coal. they will turn to their traditional suppliers like the indonesian and australians for some of the coal needs. over time, as not only japan s coal demand increases but also asian countries coal increases, there will be a place for u.s. coal in the markets. even if u.s. coal suppliers project gains they see increasing environmental regulations by the obama administration, which revoked mining purposes in west virginia and kentucky and granting expansion. the coal jobs are red, white and blue jobs. industry insiders press for bigger output, the national mining association estimates 50,000 new coal miners will be needed to meet increase demand and replace retiring miners in the coming years. in pennsylvania, molly line, fox news. bret: in a report obtained by the associated
order. what do we expect to come out of it? what particular issues could be possibly overturned? you ll see a signing ceremony today and this is aimed at overturning the policies of barack obama. we have bullet points for you that will late on you what you ll see. the top line is clean power plan. that was barack obama s plan to shut down coal power plants around the country. part of that was frozen by the supreme court. we re talking big time about coal. this is idealogical battle. this is trump s belief that jobs are more important than the environment. that s what we re going to hear a lot about today. jobs, jobs, jobs. there is a reality here about coal. coal production is down across the country. coal needs are down across the country. you ll hear a lot about that today as well. again, this is about rolling back obama s policies. i know a lot of people that supported president obama were worried, for example, that obamacare would go down in a ball of flames. that was sort of sto