{"id":80734,"date":"2026-10-31T09:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/trump-boosted-half-of-us-coal-plants-with-taxpayer-dollars-and-free-passes-to-pollute-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:54:51","slug":"trump-boosted-half-of-us-coal-plants-with-taxpayer-dollars-and-free-passes-to-pollute-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/trump-boosted-half-of-us-coal-plants-with-taxpayer-dollars-and-free-passes-to-pollute-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and \u2018free passes to pollute\u2019, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Defense Fund analysis shows administration handed out $950m and Clean Air Act exemptions<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a good time to be a coal plant in the US. The Trump administration has given support to almost half of the nation\u2019s coal plants, helping them to continue operating despite economic and regulatory headwinds, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/coalcosts.edf.org\/\">analysis<\/a> by the Environmental Defense Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis, which looked at the 184 operating coal plants that are connected to the grid, found that 90 received support from the Trump administration through \u201ccash handouts, free passes to pollute, and requirements to stay online past their retirement dates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/31\/trump-coal-plants-taxpayer-dollars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Defense Fund analysis shows administration handed out $950m and Clean Air Act exemptions It\u2019s a good time to be a coal plant in the US. The Trump administration has given support to almost half of the nation\u2019s coal plants, helping them to continue operating despite economic and regulatory headwinds, according to a new analysis &#8230; <a title=\"Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and \u2018free passes to pollute\u2019, report says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/trump-boosted-half-of-us-coal-plants-with-taxpayer-dollars-and-free-passes-to-pollute-report-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and \u2018free passes to pollute\u2019, report says\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80734","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=80734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}