WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders to “turbocharge coal mining” in the country, seeking to “more than double” electricity production to keep up with power-hungry artificial intelligence technology.
The executive orders, which Trump signed surrounded by miners in hard hats, will lift regulatory barriers to coal extraction and suspend the planned closures of numerous coal-fired power plants across the country.
“We will end the government bias against coal,” said the Republican, who instructed the department of justice to identify and fight any state or local regulations that were “putting our coal miners out of business.”