US coal and nuclear bailout update
Published by Stephanie Roker,
Editor
World Coal,
As researched by Industrial Info Resources, although the Trump administration has provided few details about its plans to provide economic support for coal and nuclear power plants after an internal memo on the topic was leaked in late May, economists have weighed in with widely varying estimates about the potential costs of that policy.
Meanwhile, utilities continue to close coal-fired power plants, and consumption of thermal coal to generate electricity continues to decline.
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