>Donald Trump has a handful of clear areas of focus in his second term as president. One of those is to force old, polluting, expensive fossil fuel power plants on the American people. And he’s taking it to new extremes this week.
>“Based on reporting, today Donald Trump will give away hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to coal plants and mandate that the Department of Defense must enter contracts to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants,” the Sierra Club wrote earlier today. “While the cost of electricity for everyday families is rising at double the rate of inflation, reports show that 91 percent of renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels like coal. As a part of his pro-coal and anti-public health agenda, Trump’s Department of Energy has also illegally bailed out six coal plants scheduled for retirement and his Environmental Protection Agency has unlawfully exempted more than 68 coal plants from lifesaving mercury pollution safeguards.”
>Yes, renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels now. It’s also cleaner and protects human health, compared to coal and natural gas power plants. Donald Trump and his administration are forcing people to pay more for electricity to support the coal industry. How ridiculous is that?
>And forcing the Department of Defense to buy expensive coal power? How insane!
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Genuinely impressed at the levels of blatant corruption going unpunished in that country
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It’s for the new battleships and ironclads that he’s building.
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>Donald Trump has a handful of clear areas of focus in his second term as president. One of those is to force old, polluting, expensive fossil fuel power plants on the American people. And he’s taking it to new extremes this week.
>“Based on reporting, today Donald Trump will give away hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to coal plants and mandate that the Department of Defense must enter contracts to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants,” the Sierra Club wrote earlier today. “While the cost of electricity for everyday families is rising at double the rate of inflation, reports show that 91 percent of renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels like coal. As a part of his pro-coal and anti-public health agenda, Trump’s Department of Energy has also illegally bailed out six coal plants scheduled for retirement and his Environmental Protection Agency has unlawfully exempted more than 68 coal plants from lifesaving mercury pollution safeguards.”
>Yes, renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels now. It’s also cleaner and protects human health, compared to coal and natural gas power plants. Donald Trump and his administration are forcing people to pay more for electricity to support the coal industry. How ridiculous is that?
>And forcing the Department of Defense to buy expensive coal power? How insane!
Genuinely impressed at the levels of blatant corruption going unpunished in that country
It’s for the new battleships and ironclads that he’s building.