[kublikhan]

Or wondering if the president-elect will steal President Obama's record of more US coal produced in history?

Not according to my math. I got 9 billion tons of coal produced under Bush(2001-2008), 8.5 billion tons under Clinton(1993 - 2000), and 7.9 billion tons produced under Obama(2009-2016). Coal production has been falling under Obama.

clinton presidency 1993-2000
us coal production(thousand short tons):
1993: 945,424
1994: 1,033,504
1995: 1,032,974
1996: 1,063,856
1997: 1,089,900
1998: 1,117,500
1999: 1,100,400
2000: 1,084,000
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total: 8,467,558,000 tons

bush presidency 2001-2008
us coal production(thousand short tons):
2001: 1,127,700
2002: 1,094,300
2003: 1,071,800
2004: 1,112,100
2005: 1,131,500
2006: 1,162,800
2007: 1,146,600
2008: 1,171,800
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total: 9,018,600,000 tons

Obama presidency 2009-2016
US coal production(thousand short tons):
2009: 1,074,900
2010: 1,084,368
2011: 1,095,628
2012: 1,016,458
2013: 984,842
2014: 1,000,049
2015: 896,941
2016: 735,919*estimated
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7,889,105,000 tons

Primary Coal Production 2014
US coal production 2010-2016

[ROCKMAN]

k - Good catch, thanks. Typing too fast...meant exports and not production. According to the EIA coal exports peaked in March 2013:

"Coal exports from the United States in March 2013 totaled 13.6 million short tons, nearly 0.9 million short tons above the previous monthly export peak in June 2012. EIA is projecting a third straight year of more than 100 million short tons of coal exports in 2013, following annual exports in 2011 of 107.3 million short tons and record annual exports in 2012 of 125.7 million short tons."

The previous coal export peak was in 1981. Not as high as in 2013 but still stands out:

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11751

[kublikhan]

Yeah I screwed up my earlier post on Illinois nuclear vs national renewable as well. Looks like the BTU data included waste heat as well. Like I want to count that! Turns out Illinois only generated about 98k GWh of nuclear, not 300k GWh. Quite a far cry from the nation's 298k GWh of other renewable. Still, this was one example where I was glad to be wrong as I want to see renewables growing.