Dwayne Yancey: Instead of jumping ahead to conclusions that haven’t been reached yet, I’d like to focus on something else, something that communities beyond Southwest Virginia could benefit from: the intentionality of Southwest even asking the question. …The economy, left to its own devices, is already undermining coal as renewables become cheaper but through our policies (such as the Clean Economy Act), we are intentionally – there’s that word again – accelerating its demise. To me, that’s an argument for making sure that the jobs that replace coal are in coal country, otherwise we’re telling a whole section of the country there’s no longer a place for them in the economy, which is another way of saying there’s no place for them in society.