Trump directs military to strike new deals with coal-fired power plants: ‘Going to be buying a lot of coal’
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President Donald Trump signs executive order calling coal essential to national security for grid resilience which directs military power procurement from coal facilities.
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"And we're going to be buying a lot of coal through the military now, and it's going to be less expensive and actually much more effective than what we have been using for many, many years."
The executive order, "Strengthening United States National Defense with America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Power Generation Fleet," states, "The United States must ensure that our electric grid … remains resilient and reliable, and not reliant on intermittent energy sources," calling the grid "the foundation of our national defense as well as our economic stability."
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