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.

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John Daysh,
Is he right or wrong & why ?

Indyvidual,

Anyone who has paid any attention to what the scientifically literate on OLO say regarding China and renewables should already know the answers to your questions.

//Is he right or wrong & why ?//

He's wrong about most of what he says - and very, very confused.

He's right that Australia exports fossil fuels that are burned overseas. He's wrong to think that means burning more of them here would lower prices or help the economy.

Export markets, domestic electricity pricing, and emissions accounting are different systems. Coal plants are closing because they're old, unreliable, and expensive to keep running.

When even the owners don't want them kept open, that's not green ideology winning, it's economics asserting itself.

Just like the suspected-pedophile President's theft of Venezuelan oil received opposition from big oil.

He's wrong to think that means burning more of them here would lower prices or help the economy.
John Daysh,
That's not really one of your better replies !