host: we are back with shane shifflett who is a reporter at " the wall street journal" to talk about how the transition from coal to green energy is impacting jobs in different parts of the country. shane, good morning. guest: good morning, thank you for having me. host: let us start with how you came up with a story, and what you did to report it out. guest: you know, in november, world leaders were meeting in scotland to discuss how to de carbonized the energy grid and one of the central questions that my editors had is what will this cost to turn the energy green and reduce carbon emissions? part of that cost is obviously going to be jobs. now, coal has faced, -- competition from natural gas and we have seen coal production and coal fire plants close. so what i started to do is look at power plants that were slated for closure in the next couple of years and see which utilities relied on them and if they had any net zero commitments and that is a pledge to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels in an effort to use clean energy to power homes around the country, and i came across two u

host: we are back with shane shifflett who is a reporter at " the wall street journal" to talk about how the transition from coal to green energy is impacting jobs in different parts of the country. shane, good morning. guest: good morning, thank you for having me. host: let us start with how you came up with a story, and what you did to report it out. guest: you know, in november, world leaders were meeting in scotland to discuss how to de carbonized the energy grid and one of the central questions that my editors had is what will this cost to turn the energy green and reduce carbon emissions? part of that cost is obviously going to be jobs. now, coal has faced, -- competition from natural gas and we have seen coal production and coal fire plants close. so what i started to do is look at power plants that were slated for closure in the next couple of years and see which utilities relied on them and if they had any net zero commitments and that is a pledge to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels in an effort to use clean energy to power homes around the country, and i came across two u