While warning of ongoing efforts to bolster polluting industries, environmental and anti-nuclear activists are cautiously welcoming reports that President Donald Trump’s latest ploy to bail out the money-losing coal and nuclear power industries has stalled due to lack of support within the administration.
“Whether it’s a dictator who says he didn’t interfere in our elections or that global warming will fix itself, this president will believe almost anything he’s told,” noted Environmental Working Group president Ken Cook. “But this scheme to bail out the dying coal industry on the backs of ratepayers was too far a stretch even for the Trump White House.”
Citing four unnamed sources with knowledge of the discussion, Politico reported late Monday that “the White House has shelved the plan amid opposition from the president’s own advisers on the National Security Council and National Economic Council.”
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Another anonymous official told E&E News that “efforts to ensure resilience of the grid continue” even as the “poorly articulated policy” put forth by the Department of Energy (DOE) under the direction of Secretary Rick Perry “flounders,” failing to win over the president’s top economic advisers.
A DOE memo detailing the plan leaked to the press in May. According to the draft proposal, officials were considering using emergency authority under federal law to force grid operators to buy electricity from at-risk coal and nuclear facilities in order to help them avoid shutdowns. The proposal claimed such a move was necessary for energy independence and homeland security.
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