Climate Changed
Trump Sets Stage for Power Market Fight With Climate Rollback
- Power plants already reeling from cheap gas, renewables
- ‘We’re going to see the survival of the fittest”: analyst
Trump Signs Executive Order on Energy Independence
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President Donald Trump may have just set the stage for a brutal competition among power-plant operators.
Trump’s decision to start the process of reversing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which called for sharp reductions in carbon emissions from the electricity sector, may lead to some coal plants remaining online that would otherwise have been forced out of business.