President Donald Trump announced Monday evening that his administration was “allowing” to create coal power.
Trump announced his intention to promote domestic coal production post A true society. It happens when the Trump administration moves at an astonishing speed, and former President Joe Biden reverses its handicap fossil fuel production, including coal electricity. (Related: Blue State Democrats take another crack in putting government in the driver’s seat of American cars)
“After years of detaining environmental extremists, madmen, militants and thugs, other countries, especially China, can gain greater economic advantages than us by opening up hundreds of coal-fired power plants.
It is not clear how the president’s announcement will affect the US energy policy or coal production, which accounts for about 16% of 2023’s generation. According to To the US Energy Information Agency.
Trump’s order was quickly praised by GOP lawmakers who represent coal-producing states and whose communities were hollowed out due to the decline in the coal industry.
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– Riley Moore (@rileymoorewv) March 18, 2025
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Biden has taken many regulatory measures to block future coal production during his term, including new restrictions on coal-fired power plant emissions and bans on future coal leases in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming.
The Trump administration has moved to rethink Biden rules on power plant emissions as part of 31 “historical actions” deregulation actions taken Wednesday by Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin. The president also declared a national energy emergency on January 20th to raise the decline in fossil fuel production and energy prices.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has insisted on stopping the closure of coal-fired power plants as part of his and the president’s “all existence” approach to boost energy production. The US faces problems with grid reliability, exacerbated by Biden-era regulatory actions. Wright believes that coal needs to be stored to provide cheap and reliable electricity to the grid.
“I’m very concerned about the grid,” Wright told the Daily Call News Foundation on Wednesday. “We need to increase our throughput with existing physical assets. I think we can do that, but it’s a tough challenge. And we hope we don’t walk into the hole we’re in, but we’ve dug a hole by the previous administration. That’s our starting point.”
“If you want to grow your supply, the first thing you do is stop digging holes,” Wright said. “We’ve been closing coal plants for quite some time. It has to stop. We need to keep these solid, reliable existing plants online. It’s objective number one… And there are existing plants that run at low operating rates because regulations and things get in the way.
“This is a new day for America’s power generation,” David Blackmon, a 40-year veteran of the oil and gas industry who is currently writing and discussing the energy sector, wrote in OP-ED on February 15 for the Daily Callenor News Foundation.
Former Special President’s Climate Envoy John Kelly insisted in November 2021 that the US would phase out coal power completely as a source of energy by 2030.
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