claim: "when did the decline of coal start? it started when natural gas took off … that started to begin in (president george w.) bush’s administration."
author: scott surovell
evidence_1: scott surovell · "when did the decline of coal start? it started when natural gas  took off … that started to begin in (president george w.) bush's administration.".
evidence_2: politifact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected  officials and others ... scott surovell, d-fairfax, was first elected to the house of  delegates in 2009. ... "when did the decline of coal start? it started when natural  gas took off … that started to begin in (president george w.) bush's  administration.
evidence_3: oct 31, 2013 ... employment in this sector has been declining steadily for the past 30 ... but for all  the rage over obama's environmental agenda, mining jobs began disappearing  in the ... under the reagan, clinton, and george h.w. bush administrations ... in  the following four years under the first president bush, coal jobs ...
evidence_4: jan 15, 2016 ... president bush, widely viewed as a texas oil man, presided over ... spans the  presidential terms of george w. bush and barack obama. ... to enter office just as  the shale oil boom in the u.s. was getting started. ... surging, production of  natural gas on federal lands was declining. ... descriptions off, selected.
evidence_5: sep 29, 2017 ... both bush and obama also were bucking strong demographic trends. ... market,  which started in the 1960s, peaked at the end of the clinton administration. ... at  or above 10 percent for 10 straight months starting in september 1982 ... under  george w. bush, the number went up by more than 8 million, after ...