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Global Bankers Spurn Trump’s Pleas to Keep Making Loans for Coal

  • Development banks are ruling out financing coal projects
  • Pro-coal U.S. representatives unsuccessfully fight changes
A coal power station in Visonta, Hungary.Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg
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U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to recruit international lenders to his pro-coal crusade.

They aren’t enlisting.