Trump Officials Helped Edit ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Report to Boost Coal
- Study credited coal with providing essential power amid storm
- Critics of coal’s role disparaged in newly disclosed emails
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Trump administration officials pushed to highlight the value of coal-fired power plants in a government report on the “bomb cyclone” that plunged the Eastern U.S. into single-digit temperatures last January.
They prodded authors at one of the Energy Department’s national labs to highlight past electrical outages from natural gas-fired power and emphasize planned coal plant closures as part of the analysis, according to newly released correspondence.