Just days before Michigan’s oldest coal plant was scheduled to shut down permanently, the U.S. Department of Energy, under the direction of the Trump administration, ordered it to remain open through the summer.

The outdated and obsolete J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant is one of the worst greenhouse gas emitters in the state, located in Ottawa County along the Lake Michigan shoreline. It was set to retire May 31 after years of careful planning, regulatory approval and major investments in clean energy.Now, this progress is being undone at great cost to both our wallets and our health.

In just the first five weeks, it cost nearly $30 million to keep the plant open — costs that Consumers Energy, the plant’s owners, will pass along to all of us. And on August 20, the Trump administrati

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