Green energy jobs. The people would be better served by job training, rather than trying to resurrect a dead industry.
Side by side. Alternative energies ( of which I am a proponent) do not yet have the capacity to generate the enormous amount of energy society uses. Coal is not a dead industry. It is a resource. If our government put half the research monies into a resource like coal that we are rich in, alongside renewable energy, they could find a way to make it burn very clean. Just common sense.