Inside Climate News: “Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry”
RFF Fellow Joshua Linn comments on future coal demand in the United States.
“Despite the regulatory boon from the Trump administration, a US coal renaissance is far from guaranteed.
‘Even if you got rid of those regulations now, maybe they come back in the future,’ said Josh Linn, a professor at the University of Maryland and a senior fellow with Resources for the Future, an energy and policy think tank. ‘That uncertainty is going to mean that it’s now a riskier investment’ to build a new coal power plant.’”
