[swebs]

Idaho does not have coal reserves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining_in_the_United_Stat...

As an aside, I believe there's a term nowadays for when the media purposefully misleads in order to promote an agenda.

[seanmcdirmid]

Isn’t that a straw man though? The media hasn’t even hinted at Idaho being into coal, heck, reading the paper or watching CNN one would think that no one used coal west of the Mississippi (when in reality Wyoming is a big coal user). If you didn’t...study it in school you wouldn’t even know how much hydro California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho had. Or maybe you simply didn’t care, because how is that information even useful to you?

There is also a term when purposely describing the media as misleading in a misleading way.

[Nasrudith]

Well that highlights that they lack an economic interest in it. Except nearly everywhere that applies - mid-tier restuarants like Arbies are bigger than the coal issue yet so many declare coal their hill to die on as some sort of symbol.

[thinkcontext]

The article explicitly states it is to replace generation from a coal plant in Nevada.