Posted on 04/09/2025 5:57:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday promoting the deregulation and expansion of the “beautiful, clean coal” industry in the U.S.
The first order White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf said might be “one of the most significant executive orders” the president has issued so far.
“This directs all departments and agencies of the federal government to end all discriminatory policies against the coal industry. 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,” Scharf said.
The other executive orders attempt to prevent some Biden-era policies from going into effect that would have caused the shuttering of dozens of American coal plants; support policies promoting the continued incorporation of coal and fossil-fuel forms of energy into the grid; and direct the Department of Justice to investigate state policies that may illegally or unconstitutionally “[discriminate] against coal” and “secure sources of energy.”
The White House hosted a large group of coal miners, members of Congress, administration officials and others Tuesday afternoon to commemorate the “Unleashing American Energy” signing event.
“This is a very important day to me because we’re bringing back an industry that was abandoned despite the fact that it was just about the best – certainly the best in terms of power, real power,” Trump said.
Trump said he was “honored” to be signing the orders in defense of the coal industry and that the administration was “ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all.”
Trump also said his administration was working on something unique that would guarantee the coal industry would not be upended by changes in administrations, based on an idea he had “about 15 minutes” before the event.
“We’re going to give a guarantee that… if somebody comes in, they can’t change it at a whim. They’re gonna have to go through hell to close you up,” he said to the coal miners.
Under the new administration, the department of the interior has approved the expansion of the Spring Creek Mine in Montana, and Trump promised there would be more coal ventures in Alabama, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and other states.
“I think we’re gonna look back with great pride at what we’ve done today – not just in putting people to work but at really reawakening our country,” Trump said.
Trump signs four executive orders promoting coal industry ... which will then be undone by the next dem president.
Tired of presidents legislating by executive order.
Long past due.
Also, politically, not a bad thing pumping up the economy in Eastern Kentucky, Southeastern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, the Southwest portion of Virginia and ALL of West Virginia.
A learned professor once told me “Use petroleum to make things, burn coal.”
Well this is where the other branches of government come in. They need to codify this into law. Protect having another _resident come in and destroy the plus column.
Coal is Solar Energy stored for millions of years underground.
Think:
ALL that CARBON was once IN THE ATMOSPHERE!............
We may or may not have a need for coal for fuel, but carbon fiber and graphene are basically the new oil. We will need coal for that.
Sadly, they won't.
Coal can be made into kerosene (jet fuel) (Originally called coal oil) and gasoline.......................
All those coals in the southern states are lignites, except around Birmingham and Abilene. The bottom of the food chain for coals, right above peat.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Is the coal China is buying in all their new start up coal power generating plants anthracite or ignite? Are most of the World’s coal reserves (proven or known) hard or soft?
Back in the bad old days when coal was used for home heating and open-hearth furnaces were used to smelt steel, there was an enormous amount of sulfur oxides, coal tars and particulate ash and carbon discharged in the open air, so much so that the brown smog that hung over Chicago could be seen from a hundred miles away. People driving in Pittsburgh had to drive with lights on in the middle of the day. Black lung disease was rampant.
These challenges have been met, and overcome, with new technology and determined efforts to maintain clean air in other aspects (it was not only coal that contributed to the smog problems), yet coal has remained the whipping boy for the “green” enviroweenies. In their frantic efforts to keep the genie in the bottle, they have resorted to getting carbon dioxide declared a “pollutant” when it is in fact a very essential plant food, and the basis of the highly corrosive oxygen we must breathe in every minute of every day.
If coal is heated to near incandescent temperatures, in the absence of oxygen, virtually all the volatile constituents are driven off, including most importantly, sulfur compounds, and collected for further industrial use. The remaining product, called coke, is nearly pure carbon, which, when maintained at a glowing heat, has the capability of turning water vapor into a mixture of carbon monoxide, a very good fuel in its own right, and molecular hydrogen, the cleanest burning fuel available, and whose only end product is - water vapor.
Carbon monoxide is poisonous to life, in that it competes with oxygen to such a degree, that the very cells of living material die in its presence. But as noted, it is a most excellent fuel when burned in an excess of oxygen, and the end product is carbon dioxide, which, as noted above, is NOT a pollutant, but highly essential for all life on earth.
Are those miners who were unemployed in 2016 still waiting for their phone to ring with a return to work call?
Most of the remaining “good” coal in the world is bituminous. The BTU content of lignite is much less than bituminous and it gives off a lot of crap when burned. I don’t know what China burns. Try a wiki search.
Cheap energy is on the way to the steel and aluminum industries again.
I hope they bring back coal fired power plants online. Anyone remember the year Texas had an electrical shortage with disastrous results? Sky high prices and blackouts when windmills froze up and lack of solar resulting in some deaths.
I’m pleased...The resource is good forever...
Husband is from Eastern Pennsylvania, anthracite coal country. His hometown has been decimated by legislation against the coal industry, lots of young people on heroin, opioids and dying from fentanyl poisoning.
Coal is dying but it should be allowed to die a natural death. The government should not be trying to kill it off as was done under Obama and Biden.
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