President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Tuesday to “reinvigorate affordable, reliable, and clean coal,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on X.
“Coal is critical to achieving American energy and [artificial intelligence] dominance,” Leavitt said.
The order directs the chair of the National Energy Dominance Council to designate coal as a “mineral” under Executive Order 14241, which called for immediate measures to facilitate and expedite mineral production, The Daily Signal has learned.
The order pushes for using coal to power new artificial intelligence data because of coal’s ability to meet the increase in electricity demand due to a resurgence of domestic manufacturing and the construction of AI data processing centers.
Trump will also direct relevant agencies to identify coal resources on federal lands, lift barriers to…
