US Should Stop Closure of Coal-Fired Power Plants, Wright Says
- Wright says coal is critical to meeting energy demand
- Trump has backed fossil fuels to keep energy costs lower
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The US should stop the closure of coal-fired power plants, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, adding the fuel source would be essential to the nation’s power system for decades to come.
“We are on a path to continually shrink the electricity we generate from coal,” Wright said Tuesday on Bloomberg Television. “That has made electricity more expensive and our grid less stable.”