want the plant back, with everything it had? or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have a coal plan. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we move from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad wasn t a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer but my dad was in sales, and there was no work so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolley in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenue, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood, the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town where the scrantons and other good decent people lived, there was a you d go by a wall that my recollection was somewhere between 15 and 18 feet tall. and it went essentially a city block. and you could see the coal piled up to the very top o
want the plant back, with everything it had? or what you re going to have. i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying i d rather have a coal plan. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we move from scranton, when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad wasn t a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer but my dad was in sales, and there was no work so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home when you take the trolley in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenue, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the neighborhood, the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town where the scrantons and other good decent
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you can say this was the kind of study that would say, yes, this is only going to be bad. it didn t look at anything else. i want to play another sound bite for you and our viewers and listeners. this is the president going after leeway that he believes that china and india will have as a result of the paris agreement. here it is. china will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plan. so we can t build the plants but ey can according to this agreement. india will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020. think of it. india can double their coal production. we re supposed to get rid of ours. is any of that true? well, there s a slight grain there of accuracy related to india. before we get there, i think the most important thing to point out is that everything in the agreement is voluntary. it s not like a straight jacket
let me bring this in look, i m not. it s directed to both of you. this was written this week by new york former mayor michael bloomberg. no matter what roadblocks the white house and congress throw up, the united states can and i m confident will meet the commitment it made in paris in 2015 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet. stephen, to you, what we heard from the president during the campaign is that he was going to withdraw from the paris accord. not so clear now. do you expect he will? should he? yeah, he will. here is the reason why. look, jeff knows this, too, even if the united states completely shuts down our energy industry, we shut down our oil and gas and coal industry, in terms of changing the temperature of the planet, it s going to make no difference, as you know, jeff. every time we shut down a coal plan here in the united states, china and india build ten coal plants. how in the world is putting american workers in west virginia, in m