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President Donald Trump on Tuesday made an unprecedented peacetime intervention in the electricity sector, using executive orders to force aging coal-burning plants to stay open and feed soaring energ...
From Scientific American
U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Tuesday that aim to boost coal production in his latest action that runs counter to global efforts to curb carbon emissions.
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But Trump can’t directly reverse the market dynamics driving the long-term decline of coal, including the higher costs of running less efficient coal plants compared with less-expensive natural gas and renewable energy.
Coal Secretary Vikram Dev Dutt aims to boost indigenous mining equipment manufacturing in collaboration with Coal India.