The Trump administration is exploring the use of emergency powers to revitalize retired coal plants, aiming to support the fossil fuel industry. This move, championed by officials like U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgim, seeks to maintain existing coal operations and possibly recommission shut-down plants. However, experts criticize the initiative as impractical and costly. The resurgence of coal threatens to raise electricity prices and exacerbate environmental challenges, while coal's power generation role has been declining dramatically in the U.S. over the last two decades, providing less than 16% of power now compared to over 51% in 2000.
"Under the national energy emergency, which President Trump has declared, we've got to keep every coal plant open. And if there had been units at a coal plant that have been shut down, we need to bring those back."
"It's dangerous. It's expensive. It's impractical. The logistics alone of bringing retired coal plants online would be difficult. It's not like turning on and off a lightbulb."
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