President Donald Trump is putting a final end to years of liberal red tape that crippled America’s energy independence by signing four executive orders to revitalize the nation’s coal industry.
The orders save coal-fired power plants from shutdown and remove Biden-era regulations that have stifled domestic energy production.
Using emergency authority, President Trump ordered older coal-fired power plants set for retirement to continue producing electricity.
This decisive action addresses rising U.S. power demands from data centers, artificial intelligence development, and electric vehicles while ensuring stable energy prices for American families.
“We’re bringing back an industry that was abandoned,” President Trump declared at the White House signing ceremony, surrounded by coal miners in hard hats. “We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on clean coal once and for all.”
The executive orders directly target Biden administration policies that have been suffocating the coal industry.
Federal agencies must now identify coal resources on federal lands and eliminate regulations that discourage investment in coal production.
President Trump immediately terminated the Jewel Moratorium, an Obama-Biden era policy that devastated mining communities by pausing coal leasing on federal lands.
The four orders establish a thorough strategy for American energy dominance.
They expedite environmental reviews for coal projects, prioritize coal leasing on public lands, and assess coal’s potential to support growing AI data centers.
The Department of Energy will speed up coal technology development while federal actions that discourage coal use will be eliminated.
The president 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. And it wasn’t just Biden, it was Obama, and there were others. But we’re doing the exact opposite. And all those plants that have been closed are going to be opened.”
The move saves essential facilities like the Cholla Power Plant in Arizona.
As President Trump explained, “We’re going to keep those coal miners on the job and tell them to just remain calm, because we’re going to have that plant opening and burning the clean coal ‒ beautiful, clean coal ‒ in a very short period of time.”
During his speech, the president showed his understanding of coal miners’ way of life, stating, “You could give ’em a penthouse on Fifth Avenue and a different kind of job, and they’d be unhappy. They want to mine coal. That’s what they love to do.”
Republican senators and governors from major coal-producing states like Wyoming, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Illinois, attended the signing ceremony.
These states will see immediate economic benefits as coal production ramps up to meet the nation’s energy needs.
Coal serves as a critical resource for energy independence, but environmentalists were quick to attack Trump’s America First energy policy.
Rachel Hamby from the Center for Western Priorities claimed, “Donald Trump is hell-bent on dragging the United States back to the 19th century, complete with robber barons, smokestacks, crippling tariffs, and measles.”
