Has Trump changed the retirement plans for the country’s largest coal plants?
by Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News from Ars Technica - All content on (#6TNDP)
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There is renewed talk of a coal power comeback in the United States, inspired by Donald Trump's return to the presidency and forecasts of soaring electricity demand.
The evidence so far only shows that some plants are getting small extensions on their retirement dates. This means a slowdown in coal's rate of decline, which is bad for the environment, but it does little to change the long-term trajectory for the domestic coal industry.