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April 8, 2025
William Upton
Economy
Politics

Trump Ends Biden-Era Anti-Coal Policies to Boost American Energy Production.

PULSE POINTS:

❓What Happened: President Donald J. Trump signed four Executive Orders to revitalize the U.S. coal industry.

👥 Who’s Involved: President Trump, relevant federal agencies, and the U.S. coal industry.

📍 Where & When: The announcement was made at the White House on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

💬 Key Quote: President Trump stated, “Today, we’re taking historic action to help American workers, miners, families and consumers. We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all. We’re going to put the miners back to work.”

⚠️ Impact: The order aims to increase energy production, support the economy, create jobs, and lower electricity costs.

IN FULL:

President Donald J. Trump signed a series of Executive Orders on Tuesday to increase American energy production by ending almost all restrictive regulations on coal. According to the America First leader, the Executive Orders will end all discriminatory policies against the coal industry, end the federal land leasing moratorium enacted by former President Joe Biden, and accelerate permitting and new funding for coal projects. Additionally, Trump signed an order placing a moratorium on Biden’s coal plant regulations—which would have effectively ended their use in the United States—preventing the restrictions from taking effect.

Trump signed two additional orders. The first directs federal agencies to prioritize electrical grid security by focusing on policies that promote secure and effective energy production and ending policies rooted in the woke green agenda that discriminate against reliable energy sources such as coal. The President also enacted an Executive Order directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate state governments that enact discriminatory environmental policies targeting the coal industry. The White House contends that many of these policies are unconstitutional and represent state governments impeding upon federal regulatory authority.

“Today, we’re taking historic action to help American workers, miners, families and consumers. We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all,” President Trump said before signing the four executive actions. He stressed that the coal plants closed under the former Biden government will be reopened as part of an across-the-board American energy plan. Trump added: “We’re going to put the miners back to work.”

Under Biden, the federal government enacted a bevy of new environmental regulations targeting the coal industry and emissions standards as part of its embrace of the far left’s green agenda. The Trump White House has prioritized reversing those extreme Democratic policies.

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May 23, 2024
Wake Up Right
Economy
Politics

Biden’s Plan To Kill Coal.

The Biden regime plans to end new coal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, which produces nearly half of the United States’ coal.

The details: Biden’s Bureau of Land Management released an environmental impact statement last week claiming that continuing to lease the land would have negative effects on the climate and public health.

  • The statement noted that existing leases would be allowed to continue until they expire, the latest being 2041.

Zoom out: The Powder River Basin is the nation’s largest coal producer, accounting for over 40 percent of all coal.

  • More than 4,000 people employed in these mines risk losing their jobs.
  • In Wyoming, coal mining contributes to more than $1 billion in revenue annually, which is used to fund schools, roads, and other public services.

Why is Biden doing this? He’s looking to appease the far-left base of the Democrat party. Environmental activists have been lobbying the regime to end the leasing of public lands for coal mining.

What Republicans are saying: Sen. Cynthia Lummis slammed the move, saying:

  • “I am horrified to see the Biden administration’s latest assault on our nation’s domestic energy production… [Biden is working] to cater to the extremists within the Democratic Party. The Cowboy State produces some of the cleanest and best coal in the world.”

What happens next? The state’s Republican Governor, Mark Gordon, vowed to take legal action against Biden’s attempt to “grovel at the feet of coastal elites.”

The last word goes to Anthony Oliver, the country music artist who took the world by storm last summer, who famously sang: “I wish politicians would look out for miners. And not just minors on an island somewhere.”

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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The Biden regime plans to end new coal leasing in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, which produces nearly half of the United States' coal. show more
May 1, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Economy

Can You Guess How Many New Pages of Regulations Biden is Imposing on American Coal?

The Joe Biden regime has approved 681 pages of new coal power regulations likely to strange coal-focused energy companies and the mines that supply them. Demands in new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations include requiring coal power stations to install carbon capture systems that do not exist commercially at scale. Along with new baseload gas-fired plants, coal power stations must slash emissions by 90 percent.

“With the latest iteration of the illegal Clean Power Plan 2.0 announced today, President Biden has inexplicably doubled down on his plans to shut down the backbone of America’s electric grid through unachievable regulatory mandates,” complained Senator Shelley Moore Capito, who represents coal-rich West Virginia.

“Electricity demand is set to skyrocket thanks in part to the EPA’s own electric vehicles mandate, and unfortunately, Americans are already paying higher utility bills under President Biden,” Capito added.

The lawmaker refers to reports that supposedly climate-friendly innovations such as electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps are driving a massive spike in electricity demand. This development is, in turn, increasing emissions downstream at the power plant level.

IMPOSSIBLE DEMANDS.

Biden reportedly agreed to target eliminating coal power by 2035 at a Group of Seven (G7) summit, suggesting he knows the industry will not be able to meet his regulatory demands.

While he was championing earlier regulations against American coal as Barack Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden’s son Hunter was inking lucrative contracts with Chinese coal firms part-owned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Across the Atlantic, First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf is leaving office partly because he is abandoning unrealistic plans to slash carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. The move, forced by rising energy costs, angered the Scottish Greens, a minor far-left party upon which he relied for support in the Scottish Parliament.

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The Joe Biden regime has approved 681 pages of new coal power regulations likely to strange coal-focused energy companies and the mines that supply them. Demands in new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations include requiring coal power stations to install carbon capture systems that do not exist commercially at scale. Along with new baseload gas-fired plants, coal power stations must slash emissions by 90 percent. show more
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April 25, 2024
Politics

Biden’s EPA Rolls Out Regulations Aimed At Killing The American Coal Industry.

The Biden government on Thursday unveiled one of its most extreme environmental regulations yet, requiring coal-fired power plants to almost entirely eliminate their emissions or else face being shutdown. Under the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation, these power plants must decrease their pollutants by an ambitious 90 percent by 2039 — one year earlier than the originally proposed 2040. Representatives from the coal power industry have called the emissions benchmarks set by the EPA unrealistic.

In addition to the new emissions standards, the EPA is imposing more stringent controls on mercury emissions — a neurotoxin associated with developmental harm to children — from specific plants that use lignite coal, an inferior grade of coal. Other regulations will require more rigorous management of toxic ash seepage from coal stations into the surrounding water table and promote stricter surveillance of coal plant wastewater discharge.

The EPA’s regulatory announcements could amount to the potential end of the coal industry in the United States. Environmental activists, however, hail the possibility as they contend that coal combustion is responsible for the highest level of carbon dioxide emissions globally.

These new regulations follow actions undertaken by the Biden government to severely restrict emissions from American cars and trucks. The new automobile emission standards aim in part to fast-track the adoption of electric vehicles among American consumers. Officials in the Biden government have reiterated their intent to reduce U.S. carbon emissions by roughly 50 percent by 2030 and achieve complete decarbonization of the power industry by 2035.

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The Biden government on Thursday unveiled one of its most extreme environmental regulations yet, requiring coal-fired power plants to almost entirely eliminate their emissions or else face being shutdown. Under the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation, these power plants must decrease their pollutants by an ambitious 90 percent by 2039 — one year earlier than the originally proposed 2040. Representatives from the coal power industry have called the emissions benchmarks set by the EPA unrealistic. show more