Exelon, one of America’s largest electric utilities, is opposed to the Trump maladministration’s plan to roll back the EPA rule that limits how much mercury coal generating stations can introduce into the environment. Good for them!
Murray Energy, the largest private-owned coal company in the United States, has been quietly bankrolling opposition to the 20.7 megawatt (MW) Icebreaker Wind project set to be built on Lake Erie in a move that, while not illegal, can easily be described as deceptive.
The Trump administration is considering a plan that would order utility companies to purchase electricity from coal and nuclear generating plants even though the cost of that electricity will be higher than what they pay natural gas facilities and renewable suppliers. In other words, the Trump administration wants to force you to buy more expensive, dirtier electricity that is more likely to cause you health problems and perhaps even premature death.
US Energy Secretary Rick Perry has granted the country’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 30 more days to review his proposal to bail out the coal and nuclear industry’s at the same time that The Washington Post has obtained material that shows Perry may be acting at the behest of the coal industry.
Robert Murray, head of the largest privately owned coal company in America, says “clean coal” is a myth. Murray is an adviser to Donald Trump. So why did Trump base much of his campaign on the clean coal lie?
Both Trump and Pruitt are bold-faced liars and the person to prove it is Robert Murray. He is the owner of Murray Energy, the largest privately held coal company left in America since 50 others went bankrupt after 411 coal fired electric generating plants were shuttered in America since 2008.
First of all, let’s get this straight — I don’t think anyone is purely against the people who pull coal out of the ground, the people looking for steady jobs and decent income, or the people who try to help other people from losing their jobs. But we are against … [continued]
