Trump orders immediate steps to boost coal plants

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Jun 3, 2018
Joselyn King
Education Writer, With AP Dispatches
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WHEELING — President Donald Trump said Friday he believes the nation’s coal-fired and nuclear plants are vital to national security, and he directed Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take “immediate steps” to keep them open.

Both Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Rep. David B. McKinley, R-W.Va., have been encouraging Trump to use his power under the Defense Production Act and the Federal Power Act to protect power plants already investing in emissions control.

The Defense Production Act gives the president powers to assure the nation can produce whatever resources are necessary in the time of national need.

The Trump Administration has determined coal-fired are vital to the protection of the nation’s energy grid, according to a statement released Friday by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

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http://www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2018/06/trump-orders-immediate-steps-to-boost-coal-plants/

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1. " ... whatever resources are necessary in the time of national need."

What national need?

More coal mining?

More CO2 and climate change?

More acid rain?

More acid mine drainage?

More black lung?

The need to produce dirty energy?

[Petrushka]

2. More damage & destruction of rural residents' wells, ponds, natural springs, streams . . .

.. . . caused by the intentional subsidence techniques of Bob Murray's underground shield-support longwall mining system---not to mention more valley streams buried under mine wastes.