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2025-04-09 Home Front: Politix
Trump Signs Four Actions to Protect, Bolster America's Coal Industry
[Beitbart] President Donald Trump signed four executive actions on Tuesday aimed at protecting and bolstering America’s coal industry.

Trump signed the orders during an East Room event, attended by key Cabinet members like Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin.

The first was an order that “directs all departments and agencies of the federal government to end all discriminatory policies against the coal industry,” White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf announced at the signing ceremony.

“This ends the leasing moratorium that prevents new coal projects on federal land, and it’s going to accelerate all permitting and funding for new coal projects to allow the coal industry to flourish under your leadership,” Scharf told Trump.

The second action imposes a moratorium on the policies from the previous administration that threaten coal plants around the country.

“There are currently dozens of coal plants in America that are in imminent danger of being forced to close based on unscientific and unrealistic policies enacted by the Biden administration,” Scharf noted.

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“What we are going to do is essentially impose a moratorium on those policies taking effect to protect coal plants that are currently operating to ensure they are able to continue producing power, and continue providing jobs to Americans in the coal industry,” he continued.

Per a White House fact sheet, the proclamation “allows certain coal plants to comply with a less stringent version of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule for two years,” rather than the more strict standards the Biden administration implemented.

A third order deals with securing the grid and making it more reliable.

“This executive order is going to promote grid security and reliability by ensuring, in part, that our grid policies are focused on secure and effective energy production and energy transmission as opposed to woke policies that discriminate against secure sources of power like coal and other fossil fuels,” Scharf said.

The fourth action instructs the Department of Justice to investigate anti-coal policies put forth by Democrat-run states, which the administration believes are unconstitutional.

“One of the biggest problems we have in this space is Democrat states, radical leftist states enacting policies and enacting an agenda that discriminates against coal, against secure sources of energy,” Scharf stated, adding that many such policies are illegal and unconstitutional.

“With this executive order, you’re going to be instructing your Department of Justice to vigorously pursue and investigate these state policies that we believe are illegal or unconstitutional,” he added.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-09 09:42|| || Front Page|| [11157 views ]  Top

#1 China extends coal imports lead over India to widest in more than a decade
Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-09 09:44||   2025-04-09 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama shut down our local coal mine and power plant. Most of the mine was reclaimed before the money ran out, and the power plant was demolished.
Posted by Glenmore 2025-04-09 15:01||   2025-04-09 15:01|| Front Page Top

#3 as noted by Glenmore, a lot of coal power infrastructure has been destroyed in the past decade or so

it can't be quickly reconstructed, nor will reconstruction be cheap
Posted by Lord Garth 2025-04-09 17:04||   2025-04-09 17:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Powder River Basin coal has excess rail transportation, since burning even the low-sulfur coal had been discouraged for years.
Posted by Bobby 2025-04-09 18:24||   2025-04-09 18:24|| Front Page Top

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