The US is eyeing emergency authority to bring back coal-fired plants that have closed and stop others from shutting, Interior Secretary
“Under the national energy emergency, which President Trump has declared, we’ve got to keep every coal plant open,” Burgum told Bloomberg Television in an interview on the sidelines of the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston. “And if there had been units at a coal plant that have been shut down, we need to bring those back.”
US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum talks about the need to keep coal plants open, keeping gas prices down, the impact of tariffs and making it easier to expand energy production. He speaks to Bloomberg’s Alix Steel at CERAWeek in Houston. Source: Bloomberg
Burgum, who also serves as the chair of the White House’s National Energy ...
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