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Coal's comeback
President Donald Trump hasn’t made a lot of friends with his attacks on environmental programs. But voters in coal miningKohlebergbaucoal-mining communities have no complaints about the president’s promise to bring back jobs to their industry.
Among those who would like to join the Trump fan club are 13,000 Native AmericanUreinwohner(in) AmerikasNative American members of the crowKräheCrow tribeStammtribe in Montana. “This is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” says Paul Little Light of the tribe’s povertyArmutpoverty. “A lot of people are not Trump fans here. Very few. But we would be his best friends if he brought back coal,” Little Light told The New York Times.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior (US)InnenministerSecretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke thinks help is on the way. A former Navy SEAL (Sea, Air, Land)Mitglied einer Spezialeinheit der MarineNavy SEAL, Zinke is responsible for protecting and managing Native American territory. “We have not been a good partner in this,” he says of previousfrühere(r,s)previous governments. “The amount of bureaucracy and paperworkSchreibkram, hier: Verwaltungsaufwandpaperwork and to stall sth.etw. blockieren, hinauszögernstalling in many ways has created great hardshipNot(lage)hardship on some of the poorest tribes.”
Zinke is enthusiastic about the Trump administration’s relaxationhier: Lockerungrelaxation of environmental protection legislationGesetzgebung; Gesetzelegislation that had been to enactetw. erlassenenacted by the Obama government. “A war on coal is a war on the Crow people,” he comments. “President Trump has promised to end the war.”