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Trump to use wartime powers to dole out $700m to coal industry
Donald Trump is using the Defense Production Act to allocate $700 million to coal-fired power plants, aiming to support what he calls 'beautiful clean coal' despite its status as a dirty fossil fuel. Critics accuse him of prioritizing polluters by invoking wartime powers to prop up coal output.
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