According to the NOTUS website:

"Two Colorado coal plant owners say the Trump administration is violating their constitutional rights by forcing a facility to remain open.

Two of the electric utilities that own a unit at the Craig Station generating facility in Colorado filed a petition with the Energy Department last week asking the Trump administration to reconsider its mandate to keep the unit open until the end of March.

The unit stopped operating in mid-December because of a mechanical failure and was slated to officially close at the end of 2025 to comply with air pollution regulations. The Trump administration ordered it to stay open one day before its scheduled retirement.

The Energy Department’s order “will likely require additional investments in operations, repairs, maintenance and, potentially, fuel supply, all factors increasing costs,” the operators said in a statement."

Across the country, extending the lives of aging coal plants could cost utility ratepayers more than $3 billion per year, according to an analysis last year from Grid Strategies.

Even the coal industry is shifting its viewpoint on energy production and profitability.

Yep, this is textbook Trump-era economics eating itself.

The coal industry isn't being "saved", it's being conscripted. And all just to spare the fragile identities of deniers, anti-intellectuals, and the MAGA mob.

When even coal companies are begging a pro-coal administration to stop "saving" them, the policy isn't conservative, pro-worker, or pro-market. It's just expensive nostalgia enforced by decree.

Tribalism at its finest.