From the article: "President Donald Trump announced this week that rising electricity prices are a national security threat, and his administration is planning to use more than $800 million of government funds to boost the coal industry."
Don the Con sure loves spending taxpayer money to prop up any industry that's on life support, and coal is one of them. And burning coal to produce electricity has other impacts, like these:
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