Earthjustice denounces Trump administration’s $700 million giveaway to the coal industry

Earthjustice denounces Trump administration's $700 million giveaway to the coal industry

Propping up uneconomic coal plants and export infrastructure harms our health and our economy

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Jill Fitzsimmons, [email protected]

The Trump administration is expected to announce that it will invoke the Defense Production Act to use hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to prop up coal plants across the country and fund a proposed coal storage and handling facility in California.

Jill Tauber, Vice President of Litigation for Climate & Energy, issued the following statement:

"The Trump administration is once again abusing emergency powers to prop up dirty and uneconomic coal plants that harm our health and raise our electricity bills. Our taxpayer dollars should be used to ensure clean air and water for all Americans and bring down rising electricity costs, not for fossil fuel handouts. Earthjustice will continue to fight back against the Trump administration's attempts to drag us backwards. As Congress considers reauthorizing the Defense Production Act, it must rein in this administration's misuse of emergency powers to benefit polluting industries at taxpayers' expense."

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