Trump is said to be 'really interested' in payments for coal use

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice said Donald Trump is “really interested” in his plan to prop up Appalachian mining by giving federal money to power plants that burn the region’s coal. Justice, a coal and real estate mogul elected governor last year as a Democrat, announced at a West Virginia rally alongside President Trump last week that he’s becoming a Republican. Justice has recently spent a “goodly amount of time" meeting one-on-one with Trump and has liked the feedback to his pro- coal proposal. The plan calls for the Department of Homeland Security to send $15 to eastern US utilities for every ton of Appalachia coal they burn.