"The workforce is just not out there," said Carson Pollastro, Wolverine's chief executive officer, during a panel at Utah State University Eastern in Carbon County earlier this year.
"I don't want to see coal go away, and my deep feeling down inside is that it all depends on who we have for administrations in Washington," Lynn Sitterud, outgoing commissioner for Emery County, told High Country News.
"This whole area was raised on coal mining," said Jared Simms, a fourth-generation coal miner who's been working underground for 18 years.
Coal jobs in Utah fell by half from the early 1980s to the 1990s. Some mines shuttered, while those that stayed open needed fewer workers as technology advanced.
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