{"id":66158,"date":"2026-02-12T11:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/trump-named-undisputed-champion-of-beautiful-clean-coal-by-industry-group\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:56:27","slug":"trump-named-undisputed-champion-of-beautiful-clean-coal-by-industry-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/trump-named-undisputed-champion-of-beautiful-clean-coal-by-industry-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump named \u2018undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal\u2019 by industry group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Award was presented as president directed Pentagon to buy billions of dollars\u2019 worth of energy from coal plants<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/12\/trump-tariffs-canada-republicans-democrats-ice-bovino-pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> was crowned the \u201cundisputed champion of beautiful clean coal\u201d during a White House ceremony on Wednesday, during which the president received a trophy after ordering the US defense department to purchase billions of dollars\u2019 worth of power from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/coal\">coal<\/a> plants.<\/p>\n<p>The award was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/11\/climate\/trump-coal-pentagon-electricity.html\">reportedly<\/a> granted by the Washington Coal Club, an advocacy group with <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/organizations\/541223629\/202031969349201203\/full\">financial ties<\/a> to the coal industry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/12\/trump-clean-coal-award\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award was presented as president directed Pentagon to buy billions of dollars\u2019 worth of energy from coal plants US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump was crowned the \u201cundisputed champion of beautiful clean coal\u201d during a White House ceremony on Wednesday, during which the president received a trophy after ordering the US defense department &#8230; <a title=\"Trump named \u2018undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal\u2019 by industry group\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/trump-named-undisputed-champion-of-beautiful-clean-coal-by-industry-group\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump named \u2018undisputed champion of beautiful clean coal\u2019 by industry group\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}