Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬Trump's emergency orders pushing #coal power are "illegal" as well as dumb
Not only is this bad policy, it’s also a misuse of a law designed for wartime, according to legal scholars and analysts. If allowed to stand, this poses problems for utilities, grid operators, and regulators who plan for decades-long timeframes, only to be overruled by short-term political imperatives that favor certain industries.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/trumps-emergency-orders-pushing-coal-power-are-illegal-as-well-as-dumb/
Not only is this bad policy, it’s also a misuse of a law designed for wartime, according to legal scholars and analysts. If allowed to stand, this poses problems for utilities, grid operators, and regulators who plan for decades-long timeframes, only to be overruled by short-term political imperatives that favor certain industries.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/trumps-emergency-orders-pushing-coal-power-are-illegal-as-well-as-dumb/
