Trump can’t make it come back.
The Trump administration wants to make it easier for energy companies to open new coal-fired power plants, even as government data shows the U.S. is at the lowest level of coal use in decades. https://t.co/TDI9lw5xx8 pic.twitter.com/7k9Fx6a5Cf
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) December 7, 2018
About that plan to bring back coal… https://t.co/FY1xz2THR4 pic.twitter.com/XEzMT3xGLe
— Ed Crooks (@Ed_Crooks) December 4, 2018
Womp, womp. https://t.co/oXzB2pWCUB
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 4, 2018
New –> EPA set to announce Thursday it's weakening an Obama-era rule that had required costly technology capturing carbon dioxide emissions on new coal plants, according to multiple people familiar with the news. That tech will no longer be required.https://t.co/52E2kFmDlE pic.twitter.com/hq9A6dvHw9
— Amy Harder (@AmyAHarder) December 4, 2018
A stamp of approval from a handful of labs serving the coal industry unlocks a tax credit worth more than $7 a ton to refined coal producers and their investors https://t.co/33YTZUjlWy via @specialreports pic.twitter.com/v2UKN1Z9Yo
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) December 4, 2018
The U.S. refined coal tax credit now costs taxpayers about $1 billion a year. But clean coal is not delivering on its environmental promises https://t.co/O9Jv4A2ZGH by @MacMutual pic.twitter.com/zzUlaprWXm
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) December 4, 2018
Is so-called ‘clean’ coal too good to be true? @MacMutual investigates https://t.co/7Pwbd2ixkB pic.twitter.com/FTclN0wYVX
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) December 4, 2018
Sad! 