President Donald Trump signed multiple executive orders on Tuesday aimed at increasing U.S. coal production and keeping coal-fired power plants operational.
Along with those actions, Trump directed the head of the Department of Energy to “save� the Cholla Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant in Arizona’s Navajo County that was scheduled to cease operations this year.
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