Legislated out of existence with no chance of them being replaced by new coal fired plants regardless of Trump's wishes.
Demand for coal is dropping. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana each saw electric sector demand for coal drop the most between 2007 and 2015, falling by 49 percent, 44 percent and 37 percent, respectively, according to the EIA.
Top US coal boss Robert Murray: Trump 'can't bring mining jobs back'. While Murray said new plants using “clean coal” technologies could be built, he doesn’t expect that coal’s share of the market will rise significantly in the future.
Coalmining employed 98,505 people in 2015, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, down from 127,745 in 2008, the year Obama was elected president, and about 250,000 in the 1970s.