![Steve Gray stands outside his home in Gillette, Wyoming. He called CNN concerned that, following the election of President Biden, that Gillette could become a "ghost town." He says he was laid off from an oil field job in 2015, then subsequently from another job in oil and then one in coal last year.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/210122172045-gillette1.jpg?q=x_2,y_0,h_1078,w_1915,c_crop/w_1280)
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In the energy capital of the US, the coal trains aren't running
Gillette, Wyoming, is the energy capital of the United States. And residents like Steve Gray fear it will become a ghost town under President Joe Biden. CNN contributor John Sutter asks: In the fight against the climate crisis, what do we owe the workers who have helped power America for decades?
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