Trump Officials Still Pushing for a Coal Bailout, Regulator Says
- Cheryl LaFleur says officials still discussing coal rescue
- FERC chairman has in past supported subsidizing plants
A worker prepares to move a cut of coal hoppers for unloading at a power plant in Paradise, Kentucky.
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High ranking officials in the Trump administration are still pushing to bail out money-losing coal plants, more than a year after an earlier proposal to revive the industry failed.
Any new effort to save coal plants may find a friend in Kentucky Republican Neil Chatterjee, now chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the very agency that rejected the previous plan.