MEDIA ADVISORY: President Trump’s Embrace of Coal-powered Energy Is ‘the Right Thing for America’
6 hours ago Anthony Watts
‘President Trump bringing back coal is the epitome of making American energy independent and dominant again.’
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (March 18, 2025) – In a post on Truth Social Monday evening, President Trump said he is authorizing his administration to “immediately begin producing energy with beautiful, clean coal.” This would be a reversal of Biden administration policies, which instituted new rules and regulations with the goal of phasing out coal power entirely in the United States.
The Biden-era rules mandated coal plants cut or capture 90 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions by 2032, a standard too expensive or impractical to meet. Biden also committed the United States to the so-called “Powering Past Coal Alliance,” which had the goal of banning all coal-fired power plants, and banned new coal mining leases on federal land.
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