The last coal plant built in WV (Longview Power) cost over $1B to build and has gone through bankruptcy at least once. It’s been going so well 
that they built a new combined cycle gas plant to make the site more economical to run. It also didn’t help that the coal the plant was supposed to use was lower grade than advertised. Hell, Dominion built an offshore wind farm that has the potential to produce 3 times as much electricity as the WV coal plant for about twice the cost.
Bottom line, this “investment” is a small fraction of what is needed to build a new coal plant. Renewables and NG power plants are cheaper to build and run.
This administration’s action and plans continue to demonstrate that it has no idea what it is doing. And unfortunately, it doesn’t appear the M$M has any better grasp of the situation either.
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