President Donald Trump followed through on his pledge to boost the nation’s declining $28 billion coal-mining industry this week, signing three executive orders and a presidential proclamation designed to keep coal-fired power plants operating and to encourage more mining to fuel accelerating electricity demand.
“This is a very important day to me because we’re bringing back an industry that was abandoned despite the fact that it was just about the best, certainly the best, in terms of power, real power,” Trump said in the White House before he signed the executive actions Tuesday, on a stage shared with several helmeted coal-miners.
