Aging Coal Plants Could Cost Americans Billions

Back in April, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that, among other things, recognized coal as a critical mineral and opened federal lands to coal mining. Trump ordered the Secretary of Energy to examine the potential for expanding coal-based infrastructure to meet the electricity needs of AI data centers and other high-performance computing operations. Then in May, Trump ordered the massive  JH Campbell coal-fired power plant at the edge of Lake Michigan to be kept open for three months, before extending the deadline until…