Trump admin. wants to reclassify some radioactive waste left from the production of nuclear weapons to lower its threat level and make disposal cheaper and easier. https://t.co/ZERiPhO52i
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 10, 2018
Category: Energy
Coal isn’t coming back
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
Coal update – 11/24/18
All bad news
Trump’s policies are harmful.
NEWS: Another study buried in Friday news dump w/ the #NationalClimateAsessment: new USGS study finds nearly 1/4 of ALL US carbon pollution comes from federal lands https://t.co/Ad3xLo5AGE.
Management of Fed lands, oil, gas, coal MUST play major rule in reducing climate pollution pic.twitter.com/xndwP3Y3Tx— Ted Zukoski (@TedZukoski) November 24, 2018
It's now cheaper to build a new wind farm than to keep a coal plant running https://t.co/dWHEzOPrpl
— Reginald Hudlin (@reghud) November 24, 2018
“The main reason why coal sticks around is, we built it already,” https://t.co/dSRT51uTxc
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) November 24, 2018
This story is one reason Trump's love for Big Beautiful Coal should give you pause https://t.co/RGCsPRZWiA
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 9, 2018
From @emorwee: Coal ash kills workers; Trump kills coal ash regulations. https://t.co/QmEEPlMqIU pic.twitter.com/jeOJD1FmgC
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) November 9, 2018
.@MikeBloomberg nails it: “Promoting coal at a climate summit is like promoting tobacco at a cancer summit” https://t.co/19reBXpPw9 pic.twitter.com/iAV5QVUUZx
— Climate Reality (@ClimateReality) November 24, 2018
Exclusive: At U.N. climate talks, Trump team plans sideshow on coal https://t.co/WnvUoeSs0M pic.twitter.com/FH8IulsMSC
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 15, 2018
Coal is killing the planet
“Coal is killing the planet. Trump loves it.”
"This report makes it clear: There is no way to mitigate climate change without getting rid of coal," said an author of a landmark report from the United Nations' scientific panel on climate change https://t.co/5rdLWRrnKh
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 8, 2018
.@usatodayopinion: The Trump administration is committed to saving coal, when what it really needs to do is save the planet. https://t.co/TLuU4HfP2N
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 22, 2018
Mitch McConnell tells group of businessmen that Coal will “never be the way it was before”
Yet he and other candidates go and promise coal miners every election cycle that coal is the future
That blatant hypocrisy told to Eastern Kentuckians infuriates me https://t.co/j5mRXb8unF
— Matt Jones (@MattJonesRadio) October 23, 2018
isn’t this statement of obvious reality pretty much like what Rs have been attacking Ds for saying over last few years? https://t.co/CwgA0ytTwG
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 24, 2018
In Indiana, building new solar and wind is now cheaper than keeping *existing* coal power plants running. https://t.co/xOsPy0PE79
— Ramez Naam (@ramez) October 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/UCSUSA/status/1055116254019760129
Trump promised coal miners the world. He's made their lives worse in every way that matters. https://t.co/H4MOyC8i0O pic.twitter.com/JUGrTkKXyT
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 19, 2018
After shuttering his company during the Obama years, an Alabama coal miner is back in business and has named his new excavator "Trump," Elaina Plott reports: https://t.co/9NvlDxzKYr pic.twitter.com/V0j4t4rwvR
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 2, 2018
This is an effort to justify using national security as a rationale for mandating that coal plants stay open. https://t.co/FG39VxdQPT https://t.co/TrwSHlFqjM
— Philip Bump (@pbump) August 22, 2018
With EPA rule change, worries linger for those near coal ash ponds https://t.co/iTAym7SdNQ pic.twitter.com/Yd7rFTaMdS
— CNN (@CNN) July 21, 2018
Phasing out coal and investing in renewables has kept the U.S. on track to meet #AmericasPledge – but we need even more ambitious action to continue to make progress. https://t.co/J8U9I6ovQ2
— America's Pledge (@AmericasPledge) October 30, 2018
Trump rolled back Obama emissions controls
This story was lost a bit during all of the criminal stuff this week but it’s big. People will die because Trump will not reduce emissions.
President Trump's coal emissions rollbacks will be bad for the country's health, experts say https://t.co/NVi1wOUfB1 pic.twitter.com/H5MqeA8Dzp
— CNN (@CNN) August 21, 2018
The Trump administration's rollback of the Clean Power Plan will increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the air and cause 1,400 premature deaths every year. What it's unlikely to do is stop the coal industry's precipitous economic decline, economists say https://t.co/O0jdN15VeF
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) August 24, 2018
JUST POSTED: The Trump E.P.A. Clean Power Plan Has a Dirty Little Secret of Sorts: It Makes it Easier for the Nation's Dirtiest Coal Plants to Keep Running (and Stay Dirty) https://t.co/m0JLW6BUkT
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 24, 2018
Even the coal industry’s shills in the Trump administration acknowledge their plan to roll back regulations on coal-burning power plants will increase carbon emissions and lead to up to 1,400 premature deaths annually – not to mention its negative effects on the planet. https://t.co/s07J09l1pu
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 21, 2018
Trump’s rollback of emissions standards will be bad for our health
Here is an extraordinary/blunt admission from Trump-era EPA: between 470 & 1,400 people in the US will die prematurely EVERY year, starting by abt 2030, as a result of the new power plant rule the EPA is releasing today. @LFFriedman https://t.co/97udHglhOz
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 21, 2018
Also in the fine print: The Trump plan would lead to 48,000 new cases of exacerbated asthma every year https://t.co/598dSvWRNA https://t.co/CnL4VxrEf9
— Jonathan Ellis (@jonathanellis) August 21, 2018
President Trump's coal emissions rollbacks will be bad for the country's health, experts say https://t.co/NVi1wOUfB1 pic.twitter.com/H5MqeA8Dzp
— CNN (@CNN) August 21, 2018
Goodbye "Clean Power Plan" as Obama-era EPA called it. Trump-era EPA has renamed it. Now it is "Affordable Clean Energy rule." EPA just put out a news release, will unveil it Tuesday 10 a.m. Stay tuned to NYT. Here is a preview by @LFFriedman https://t.co/8JBPn8n062
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) August 20, 2018
Coal is not coming back for the same reason 35mm film is not coming back. Cheaper, cleaner, better alternatives were discovered. @realDonaldTrump scrapping the Clean Power Plan will not save the coal industry. It will just make our air and water dirtier. https://t.co/9gtnCtQcD6
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 21, 2018
JUST IN: California governor says the EPA's new coal pollution rules are a "declaration of war" against America https://t.co/c38h3btF3L pic.twitter.com/qOkV4sagj2
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 21, 2018
The other side:
A very good day for Kentucky. I applaud @realDonaldTrump for continuing to roll back and working to end the Obama war on coal. https://t.co/7Phg0z1DtT
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 21, 2018
.@realDonaldTrump promised he’d end radical Obama job-killing regulations on coal and restore American energy independence, and he’s delivering with today’s action. This means more jobs, lower prices, and a return of American strength!
— Rep. Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) August 21, 2018
Coal isn’t coming back
Coal is not coming back for the same reason 35mm film is not coming back. Cheaper, cleaner, better alternatives were discovered. @realDonaldTrump scrapping the Clean Power Plan will not save the coal industry. It will just make our air and water dirtier. https://t.co/9gtnCtQcD6
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 21, 2018
19 months into Trump's presidency there has been little improvement in the coal industry. https://t.co/1Bpjo6oES9 w @jendlouhyhc @TimLoh pic.twitter.com/C2TPoPJTSj
— Ari Natter (@AriNatter) August 21, 2018
Just a reminder that the #solar industry employs more Americans than coal, oil and gas energy generation combined. #SolarIsNow pic.twitter.com/Ma9iqPEymP
— Solar Industry (@SEIA) August 21, 2018
Trump’s anti-windmill rant
Trump goes on a bizarre anti-windmill rant, including mimicking a terrorist shooting one of them down pic.twitter.com/2qyjer8C37
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2018
Trump hates windmills because he fought against a windmill farm near his golf course in Scotland. He lost. :p https://t.co/etht3TIbn8
— HGTomato 🍅 (@HGTomato) August 13, 2018
Here's the transcript of Trump's remarks at a New York fundraiser last week about coal and windmills. pic.twitter.com/ADckyr4IET
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 19, 2018
Trump in Utica: Windmills kill birds.
— Tim Knauss (@TimKnauss) August 13, 2018
U.S. Fish and Wildlife estimates: Windmills kill up to 500,000 birds a year; utility lines kill up to 57 million; buildings kill up to 988 million. #TrumpinUpstate https://t.co/N7oHc2HpHY
He won’t ever stop
No, seriously https://t.co/8IBOQ6yQh1
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 29, 2022
It never ends
"Whoever does public relations work for this garbage has done an incredible job," Trump says, after a long rant about wind turbines getting a "puff piece" on 60 Minutes. There are few constants in Trump's world, but his hatred of windmills is fierce and consistent.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 17, 2022
* He lost a lawsuit against Scotland because he didn't want to see windmills from his golf course. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot…
— @JanelleAnthro (@janelleanthro.bsky.social) 2025-04-23T22:21:14.716Z
Trump administration to freeze fuel standards and fight states that want better ones
Roll back the clock. More pollution!
Republicans are big on states rights except when they don’t like the states’ policies.
Trump freezing fuel efficiency standards would cost the US economy more than $450 billion by 2050 @EnergyInnovLLC https://t.co/EU2jJOPIiH
— Christine Hart (@ChristineNHart) July 26, 2018
Trump administration hopes to curb states’ authority and freeze standards on fuel efficiency
His hatred of President Obama and goal to regress our country back to the 1980’s is unrelenting! No thought of the environment or consumer!😫😫😫🤮🤮 https://t.co/11O2MuNtXa pic.twitter.com/OpFSwIVMpA— Cheryl Brown (@ckhn1) July 25, 2018
Trump is reportedly trying to kill California’s clean car regulations and is expected to release a plan this week that halts tightening fuel efficiency standards and revokes California’s unique ability to impose stricter air pollution controls. https://t.co/OQPcMpRmb6 via @qz
— EssenViews/Commentary (@essenviews) July 26, 2018
A Ford spokesperson pointed to a recent column from CEO Jim Hackett and Chairman Bill Ford saying, “We support increasing clean car standards through 2025 and are not asking for a rollback.” https://t.co/s3F0XSHSYl
— Jones Murphy (@JonesMurphy) July 26, 2018
Important for Canada too. Our tailpipe stds are harmonized with US. Embracing tighter California stds (matched by other states) ceases to be an option if Trump Admin withdraws Clean Air Act waiver that allows CA to depart from national std. #cdnpoli https://t.co/E2TxMytQLU
— Kathryn Harrison (@khar1958) July 25, 2018
Opposing California, new EPA head calls for single U.S. fuel efficiency standardhttps://t.co/zeBfBfiLlF
— TIME (@TIME) July 25, 2018
update 8/1/18:
White House approves plan to freeze national fuel-efficiency standards https://t.co/r3moqA4Hqs
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 1, 2018
Trump administration won’t make drillers and miners pay for damage to federal land
Trump team stops asking drillers and miners to pay for damage to federal lands, @dino_grandoni reports in the Energy 202: https://t.co/jgrnshXuNC
— Brady Dennis (@brady_dennis) July 26, 2018
Sad! 