{"id":480134,"date":"2026-02-14T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/480134\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:57:21","slug":"donald-trumps-coal-plan-will-tap-cold-war-era-powers-to-order-companies-to-buy-coal-fired-power-to-revive-flagging-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/480134\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s coal plan will tap Cold War-era powers to order companies to buy coal-fired power to revive flagging industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington | US President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain US coal-fired power plants as he seeks to drive domestic reliance on the fossil fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The marquee initiative, set to be announced on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT), will come through an executive order, as Trump directs Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to enter into agreements to purchase electricity from coal plants to power military operations, according to a White House official.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington | US President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-480134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}