#Trump will direct federal agencies to loosen various restrictions on #coal mining, leasing & exports. He will instruct the #Interior Dept to resume coal leasing on millions of acres of #PublicLands, & he will order the #Energy Dept & other agencies to study whether more coal-fired #power plants can supply #electricity for #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #environment #conservation #wildlife #FossilFuels #PublicHealth #law
#Trump will also task the newly created National Energy Dominance Council with designating #coal as a mineral [umm, but, #science], a White House ofcl said. This classification will allow coal to benefit from a prior executive order that directed agencies to fast-track the permitting process for new mines on #PublicLands.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #environment #conservation #wildlife #FossilFuels #PublicHealth #law
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“Today at 3PM, President Trump will sign an Executive Order to reinvigorate AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, AND CLEAN COAL!” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X on Tuesday. “Coal is critical to achieving American Energy and AI Dominance.”
While the phrase “clean coal” is popular among #Trump’s allies, #coal is by far the dirtiest of the #FossilFuels.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #environment #conservation #wildlife #PublicHealth #law
@Nonilex Seems like a plan to harm other countries as well as our own. Will this be seen as an act of war?
Well, there it is…
#Trump has signed #ExecutiveOrders aimed at reviving the #coal industry.
The moves include loosening #environmental #law & #regulations.
Trump signed 4 EOs Tues aimed at expanding the mining & use of coal in the #US.
Flanked by dozens of miners in white hard hats [#propaganda photo op], Trump said he was instructing the #DOJ to identify & fight state policies & regulations that were “putting our coal miners out of business.”
#climate #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/climate/trump-order-coal-mining.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5781E5BA-F178-4261-92CB-848513C43ED2
@Nonilex
states should tell his thugs to gfys.
Then he freezes funds and the states sue.
Executive has no right to freeze funds allocated by Congress. Bury SCOTUS in emergency appeals.
