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The New York Times reports:
President Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday aimed at expanding the mining and use of coal in the United States, in an effort to revive the struggling industry. Flanked by dozens of miners in white hard hats at the White House, Mr. Trump said he was instructing the Justice Department to identify and fight state policies and regulations that were “putting our coal miners out of business.”
He added that he would “guarantee” that future administrations could not adopt policies harmful to coal. “We’re going to give a guarantee that the business will not be terminated by the ups and downs of the world of politics,” Mr. Trump said, but he did not provide details.
The orders direct federal agencies to remove barriers to coal leasing and mining, loosen environmental reviews of coal projects and explore whether coal-fired electricity could help power new A.I. data centers. They called for accelerating permitting and funding for new coal projects. And they directed that federal lands be opened to more mining.
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Trump here offers a clear explanation of his fundamentally anti-progress politics — coal miners want to mine coal, they don’t want to learn different jobs, so because he likes coal miners he wants to freeze the energy economy in place so they can mine.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 8, 2025
NOW: Trump is signing executive orders aimed at boosting production of coal, ignoring the climate science around the polluting energy source.
“We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all.” pic.twitter.com/YanG8wVkDa
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) April 8, 2025