President Trump on Tuesday signed four executive works, which was aimed at reversing policies that had distanced the country from coal production and aims to promote the “beautiful clean coal industry” of America, as the White House said.
Mr. Trump said that the action is to help the US to get cheap and reliable energy by “by reducing unnecessary rules”. The President said that he is using the Defense Production Act for “Turbocharged” coal mining in the US. Mr. Trump also said that his administration is working for companies to make coal plants difficult to close.
“Today, we are taking historical action to help American workers, miners, families and consumers,” Sri Trump said in the White House East Room, coal mining uniforms and male were flanks by men. “We are once and on beautiful, clean coal for all who are ending the war of Biden. And it was not just biden, it was Obama, and others too. But we are exactly opposite. And all the plants that have been closed are about to be opened.”
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Mr. Trump had a long affinity for coal, as the previous Democratic administration and many developed countries have worked to move away from fossil fuels towards renewable resources. The term “clean coal” refers to processes designed to reduce emissions from coal -powered power plants, but environmental groups say that any coal combustion is harmful.
The President’s move on Tuesday defines coal as a “mineral”, which the administration says it will give it more route on its use. The government traditionally classified it as a non -live fossil fuel. One of the executive orders prioritizes the abolition of an Obama-era sites against coal leases on federal land, to raise obstacles for coal mining on federal land and to lease coal. The President instructed the federal agencies to save any policies that infection infection from the country away from coal production.
Another executive order that the President signed on Tuesday is to promote grid reliability using fossil fuels. And yet another executive order Mr. Trump directed the Signed Department of Justice to investigate the states that are discriminating against coal.
Mr. Trump said on Tuesday, “People will not only take this industry in this industry for years and understand the industry completely without any reason, because what we do with modern technology and all other things, it is one of the great, great forms of energy,” Sri Trump said on Tuesday.
Mr. Trump has expressed a desire to exploit American coal along with oil, natural gas and nuclear power, and this executive order is one of several tasks to reverse Obama and Biden administration energy policies. chairman Is also The Paris withdrew the US from the Climate Agreement, and Declared A national emergency on energy, and he ended the previous biden’s efforts to encourage wide EV adoption.
The President said that coal miners want to do coal mines, not high -tech jobs or other fields.
Mr. Trump said, “You can give them a penthouse on the fifth Avenue and a different job, and they will be unhappy.” “They want to do a coal mine. That’s what they like to do.”
According to the US Energy Information Administration, the coal production between 2016 decreased between 2016 and in the office between 2016, despite Mr. Trump’s emphasis on coal in his first term. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, after working in the coal industry ahead of the Kovid -19 epidemic in January 2020, the less Americans working in the coal industry were doing less American work in working in the coal industry.
No new coal plant has come online since 2013 during Obama’s years, and the average age of the current fleet is 53 years. Currently, coal makes about 16% of the power mixture in the US, below 50% two decades ago.
As this year, only 41,000 American coal works. Comparatively, solar energy appointed around 280,000 Americans in 2023, according to the National Solar Job Census.
Environmental groups suggested that Mr. Trump’s executive orders would be one step back to strengthen coal.
“What’s next, there is a mandate that Americans should travel by horse and small car?” Managing Director Kit Kennedy said in a statement at the National Resources Defense Council.
“Trump’s coal orders take their worship of dirty fossil fuels to a gross and turbulent new level,” said Jason Ralender of Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Forcing old coal plants to spill pollution in our air and water means more cancer, more asthma and more time premature deaths.”
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