In Donald Trump’s presidential campaign he promised that he would put miners back to work.
But across certain parts of America where coal was the lifeblood of many communities, it is proving to be a dying trade, that has had damaging environmental effects.
Since voting for Donald Trump these local mining communities are noticing this might have been a slightly optimistic statement.
Our US correspondent Amanda Walker reports from Kentucky.
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