Trump expected to sign the order to allow coal electrical power plants to remain open | Trump Administration
Donald Trump Executive orders will be provided on Tuesday aimed at reviving coalthe most dirty fossil fuel that has long been in decline and which contributes substantially to the heating of the planet Greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.
The environmentalists expressed dismay for the news, stating that Trump was blocked in the past and wanted to “pay more for yesterday’s energy.
The President of the United States will use the emergency authority to allow some old charcoal power plants scheduled for retirement to continue producing electricity, according to two high officials of the White House, according to reports from the Associated Press. The move, which should be made to an event of the White House at 15:00 et, is in response to the increase in the demand for US power from the growth of the Datacenter, artificial intelligence And electric cars, reported the ap.
Trump’s approach is in contrast to his predecessor Joe Biden, who brought last year in May New climatic rules that require enormous cuts In carbon pollution by coal electrical power plants that some experts according to which they were “probably terminals” for a sector that until recently provided most of the American power, but is expelled from the sector by renewables and cheaper gases.
Trump, a republican, has long promised to increase what he calls “beautiful” coal to shoot in power plants and for other uses, but the industry is in decline for decades.
The EPA under Trump last month has announced a burst of actions to weaken or repeal a series of pollution limitsIncluding the search to overturn the biden era plan to reduce numerical coal plants.
The orders scheduled for Tuesday will direct federal agencies to identify coal resources on federal lands, raise obstacles to the comrades of coal and give priority to the leasing of coal on the US lands, according to the information of the officials of the White House.
The orders will also direct the interior secretary, Doug Burgum, to “recognize the end” of a moratorium by the Obama era that paused the coal leasing on the federal lands and requires federal agencies to cancel the policies to revoke the nation from the production of coal.
Orders also try to promote exports of coal and coal technology and accelerating the development of coal technologies.
Trump has long since suggested that coal can help to satisfy the increase in demand for electricity from the production and the huge dataccers necessary for artificial intelligence.
“Nothing can destroy coal. Not the time, not a bomb – nothing,” Trump said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with a video link in January. “And we have more coal than anyone else.”
Energy experts say that any coal Bump under Trump is probably temporary because natural gas is cheaper and there is a durable market for renewable energy such as wind energy and solar energy, regardless of those who hold the White House.
The environmental groups were moving away for the new executive order, underlining that coal is in strong decline in the United States compared to the increasingly economic option of renewable energies. This year, 93% of the energy added to the United States grid will try from solar, wind and batteries, second forecast by the same administration of Trump.
“What’s the next, a mandate that Americans have to move on horseback and buggy?” Kit Kennedy, CEO of the Power of the Council for Defense of Natural Resources said.
“Carbon plants are old and dirty, not competitive and unreliable. Trump Administration It is blocked in the past, trying to make the most utility customers pay for yesterday’s energy. Instead, it should do everything possible to build the electric grid of the future. “
Clean energy, such as solar and wind, is now so convenient that 99% of the existing American coal fleet costs more only to continue working than to withdraw a coal system and replace it with renewable energies, a 2023 Report on energy innovation found.
Coal, once the backbone of the US economy and contacted by Donald Trump As he went up to the presidency, he is expelled from the energy sector by renewable energy and cheaper gases and now deals with a regulation of the environmental protection agency (EPA), aimed last week, which requires all coal plants that do not withdraw by 2039 to cut their carbon emissions by 90% by the next decades.
The situation is now “probably terminal” for most of the different hundreds of US charcoal plants not already intended for closure, according to Seth Feaster, an analyst of the coal industry at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, who said that “only a handful of plants” will probably survive beyond the end of 2030.
