Strengthening United States National Defense With Americas Beautiful Clean Coal Power Generation Fleet
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Militarized Bailouts: Funding Obsolete Coal via Defense Budget and Regulatory Circumvention
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High RiskSigned by: DONALD J. TRUMP
Signed: 2/11/2026
Last Updated: 3/21/2026
Executive Order
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This order mandates the Department of War prioritize coal-based energy for defense installations through long-term contracts. By reframing coal as a national security asset, it effectively creates a federal subsidy to insulate the industry from market-driven closures and renewable competition. This order leverages national security to provide a de facto bailout for the coal industry, bypassing market forces and environmental standards. Republicans ignore the long-term fiscal burden of locking the military into expensive, legacy technology, while Democrats often overlook the genuine grid-baseload vulnerabilities that make intermittent renewables a risk to defense readiness during an accelerated energy transition.
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