The Trump Administration is considering propping up the failing U.S. coal industry by reducing the royalty payments that coal mining companies pay to the U.S. Treasury to mine coal that we the public own and providing $625 million to private companies to upgrade coal-powered plants that generate electricity.

Sounds like a subsidy for the coal industry to me, and a pretty big one at that. Coal certainly played a huge role in the growth of our economy over the past 150 years, but its role is fading fast. Coal now costs more than solar and wind to generate power. The Trump Administration should be looking to the future, not the past.

Candidate Trump railed against the tax incentives for wind- and solar-generated power enacted by Congress in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs

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