US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to restore the US coal industry, describing it as “clean, beautiful and essential to national energy security.”
This was reported on the official website of the White House.
The new document gives coal companies the right to benefits, removes barriers to coal mining and prioritizes land leases for the development of coal deposits.
Trump requires agencies to cancel any policy that aims to discourage the country from producing coal or otherwise prefers coal as a resource for electricity generation.
The United States will now promote coal exports and the development of coal technologies, as well as international agreements for the purchase of U.S. coal. The new decree also calls for using this mineral to power new models of artificial intelligence (AI).
According to Trump, coal is essential to US national and economic security, as the coal industry supports hundreds of thousands of jobs and adds tens of billions of dollars to the US economy every year, and US coal resources are valued at trillions of dollars.
According to the Trump administration, coal-fired electricity generation in the United States is “cleaner than ever.”
The current leadership of the country believes that coal will be crucial to meeting the growing demand for electricity due to the revival of domestic manufacturing and the construction of artificial intelligence data centers. The Trump administration is confident that supporting the coal industry will increase energy supply, reduce the cost of electricity, stabilize the US energy system, create high-paying jobs, support growing industries, and help the country's allies.
The White House emphasized that this order was another step by President Trump “to provide Americans with the cheapest energy and electricity on earth.”
As EcoPolitic previously reported, hundreds of words in government documents and official websites, including those related to the environment and climate change, have been banned or restricted in the United States.
We also informed that the United States is withdrawing from the UN fund to compensate for climate change damage.
