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President Donald Trump followed through with his pledge to boost the nationโ€™s declining $28 billion coal-mining industry by signing four executive orders designed to keep coal-fired power plants operating and to encourage more mining to fuel accelerating electricity demand.

โ€œThis is a very important day to me because weโ€™re bringing back an industry that was abandoned despite the fact that it was just about the best, certainly the best, in terms of power, real power,โ€ Trump said in the White House before he signed four executive actions Tuesday on a stage shared with about 15 helmeted coal-miners in overalls.

Counting Tuesdayโ€™s four coal-related directives, Trump has now issued 115 executive actions since taking office on Jan. 20, including about two dozen related to energy in implementing his policy to use the nationโ€™s abundant fossil fuelsโ€”oil, natural gas, coalโ€”to generate affordable power while simultaneously exporting liquified natural gas to pare down the $37 trillion federal debt.

Those predecessor actions, eliminating more than 200 rules, regulations, and executive orders issued under the Biden administration, enabled the three coal-related orders issued Tuesday, which grant regulatory relief to 47 companies operating 66 power plants, โ€œmaking them available for coal production almost in the immediate future,โ€ Trump said.

โ€œWeโ€™re slashing unnecessary regulations that targeted the beautiful clean coal,โ€ the president said. โ€œWe will rapidly expedite leases for coal mining on federal lands โ€ฆ and we’ll streamline permitting. We will end the government bias against coal.โ€

Trump, after personally greeting nine senators and a dozen House representativesโ€”all Republicans, most from energy-producing Rocky Mountain statesโ€”said he would authorize the use of the Defense Production Act under his national energy emergency declaration โ€œto turbocharge coal-mining in America.โ€

The president also pledged that his administration โ€œis going to do something thatโ€™s very different. This was my idea from about 15 minutes before I got up here. Weโ€™re going to give a guarantee that the business will not be terminated by the ups-and-downs of the world of politicsโ€œ by โ€making it hellโ€ to rescind approvals for coal operations.

Under the orders, coal is defined as a โ€œmineral,โ€ not as a โ€œnonrenewable fossil fuel.โ€ Coal is an organic sedimentary rock formed from compressed plant matter over millions of years, not geologically considered a mineral.

Byย John Haughey

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