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Breaking News: A federal court struck down a Trump administration order to keep an aging coal plant in Michigan running -- dealing a blow to President Trump's efforts to promote the coal industry.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2:19 PM · Sep 11, 2026

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... The use of coal to generate electricity on the US grid has been plunging for nearly two decades, and the first Trump administration was unable to affect the trend. So his second administration has attempted more aggressive interventions to prop up coal use. One of its most direct means of doing so is to order coal plants that were scheduled to close to remain open, even if there is no need for them.

The administration's justification for these orders is a statute that allows the Department of Energy (DOE) to declare an emergency in the case of wartime or a sudden shortfall in generation. ...

The decision was issued by a unanimous three-judge panel from the DC Circuit's Court of Appeals. ...

The court interprets this as an indication that Congress had intended for federal intervention at the level of generation facilities to be rare and only in cases where there was an immediate shortfall that could only be addressed through federal action. And it notes that this is exactly how the authority had been used throughout its history. "Indeterminate assertions of summer electricity shortfalls are not what Congress meant by 'emergency,'" the judges conclude. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-12 01:49 PM | Reply

Good. Coal is a really lousy fuel.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-12 02:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The emergency is the crazed pedo octogenarian

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-12 02:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1


Good. Coal is a really lousy fuel.
#2 | POSTED BY REDIAL

But not Canadian forests?

Also why would Germany shut down nuclear power, and increase coal usage?

NEXT UP: Lumpers complaining about the price of electricity!

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-12 02:47 PM | Reply

NEXT UP: Lumpers complaining about the price of electricity!

Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-12 02:47 PM | Reply

Trump is going to force Canada to cut power to 4 us states, idiot.

#5 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-09-12 02:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Trump should shut off the judges's power.

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-09-12 11:19 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#6 loves living in a monarchy... it goes with his 17th century wig.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-12 11:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Visitor should get a job in a coal mine.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-09-12 11:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Coal is a really lousy fuel.
#2 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Trump is a really lousy President.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-09-12 11:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Lumpers complaining about the price of electricity!
#4 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

Fun fact about California.

The state produces so much power from solar energy, we didn't have any brownouts during these recent heatwaves.

You keep sucking that coal out of Trump's ass and we'll stick with solar.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-09-12 11:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The only thing coal has going for it is that it's cheap, and there's lots of it. Otherwise, it sucks.

#11 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-12 11:35 PM | Reply

Reliable too.

#12 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-09-13 12:26 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

#12

It doesn't get more reliable than a 4.5 billion year old continuously operating fusion reactor.

Coal is pretty garbage compared to that. And we're getting pretty good at turning that energy into electricity. And nobody gets black lung from it.

#13 | Posted by DarkVader at 2026-09-13 08:18 AM | Reply

#13 Never seen a cloud? or the darkness of night? or the results of a tornado/hailstorm on a solar farm? How clean is process to refine and combine the silicon and trace elements into panels? There's no free lunch.

#14 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-09-13 09:54 AM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 1

Coal is pretty garbage compared to that.

It's garbage even compared to other fossil fuels. For one thing, it's a solid so you can't pipe it or pump it. It's low density so the volume you have to move is huge. The only practical way to use it for power generation is to build the power plant right on top of the mine it comes from, which is typically in the middle of nowhere.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-13 10:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Re 8

Visitor should get a job.

Period.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-13 11:48 AM | Reply

See Coal gasification.

#17 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-13 12:57 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

..or the results of a tornado/hailstorm on a solar farm?

How many are killed in solar plant accidents?

Next to none. (Direct deaths from solar power accidents are very rare, with statistical death rates estimated at about 0.02 deaths per terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity produced.)

Ever seen a man with Black Lung disease also known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis. There is no cure.

How many die from solar power emissions? Zero

How many die from coal power emissions?

Coal-fired power plants caused about 460,000 to 500,000 deaths in the United States from 1999 to 2020 due to fine-particle air pollution.

How many die in coal mine incidents? Around the world tens of thousands die in coal mine incidents. In the US we are down to ten or so per year as we phase it out and replace it with cheaper and safer renewables.

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-13 01:17 PM | Reply

Rr 10

You will learn to love the "Duck Curve".

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-13 01:35 PM | Reply

See Coal gasification.

An expensive process that almost no one uses for turning coal into something slightly less ------?

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-13 01:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

An expensive process that almost no one uses for turning coal into something slightly less ------?

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-13 01:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

Have you ever priced a nuclear power plant?

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-13 02:12 PM | Reply

You're a ------- imbecile. Who dresses you when you wake up after 3pm?

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-13 09:58 PM | Reply

Ever seen a man with Black Lung disease also known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis.

There was a 60 minutes story on a coal miner who went to work in the mines at 18, working 70 hours a weeks for years because the money was great. Bought himself a home and shiny jacked up pickup truck.

Now he's in his 30's, unable to work and 24/7 on oxygen and knowing he will die in the near future.

#23 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-09-14 08:44 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"The message I have for climate deniers is this: you are endangering humankind. It is time for climate deniers to face reality, because the body of evidence is overwhelming and the world's leading scientists agree. Wishing that climate change will go away by clinging to a tiny minority view is not a policy, it is a fantasy. Problems do not go away by pretending they do not exist."

Senator Barbara Boxer

#24 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-09-14 12:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You're a ------- imbecile. Who dresses you when you wake up after 3pm?

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-13 09:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

Your mom should've shopped around for a professional abortion before using that coat hanger on you.

#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-14 06:05 PM | Reply

Your mom should've shopped around for a professional abortion before using that coat hanger on you.

#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Your cult leader poops his diapers and his new wig is hilarious.

#26 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-14 06:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Have you ever priced a nuclear power plant?

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds

There's a free one up in the sky.

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-14 06:52 PM | Reply


There's a free one up in the sky.
#27 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Typical SpeaksInsanly rubbish. US alone spent $180 billion just this year, on solar systems.

Such a waste. No need to spend all that every year. The US Navy has made over 270 nuclear reactors ($1,3Billion), run by high school kids.
Having over 500 reactor cores on 210 ships.

Just about one year of solar spending, and you could power CA for almost ever on cheap nuclear fuel. That doesn't even include the benefits to scaling up manufacturing.

#28 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-14 07:06 PM | Reply


"The message I have for climate deniers is this: you are endangering humankind. It is time for climate deniers to face reality, because the body of evidence is overwhelming and the world's leading scientists agree. Wishing that climate change will go away by clinging to a tiny minority view is not a policy, it is a fantasy. Problems do not go away by pretending they do not exist."
Senator Barbara Boxer

NY Times in 2021:
Scientists say that warm Atlantic surface temperatures "have helped to increase storm activity" as a result of human caused climate change
2026: no Atlantic hurricanes by 9/12 for the first time in 60 years

Always wrong, never in doubt.

The question I have is there any gold standard, or objective measure that we could use to prove MMClimateChange is real? Because every single time it seems none of the predictions from the know-it-alls is correct.

If the US just went nuclear and electric cars (SpeaksLikeAnIdiot didn't you NOT buy an electric vehicle you ordered because of Musk, LOL) we could have nice things.

#29 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-14 07:10 PM | Reply

When I was a kid, they told me if I misbehaved that I'd get a lump of coal for Christmas. I always that would have been really cool, so I misbehaved even more. Unfortunately, they were bluffing.

#30 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-09-14 08:23 PM | Reply

I always that would have been really cool

It's not. You just end up with black powder all over your house.

#31 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-14 08:29 PM | Reply

"You just end up with black powder all over your house."

You must have gotten a really crappy lump of coal. I've seen ones that were solid and even shiny.

#32 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-09-14 08:38 PM | Reply

Typical SpeaksInsanly rubbish. US alone spent $180 billion just this year, on solar systems.

Such a waste. No need to spend all that every year. The US Navy has made over 270 nuclear reactors ($1,3Billion), run by high school kids.
Having over 500 reactor cores on 210 ships.

Just about one year of solar spending, and you could power CA for almost ever on cheap nuclear fuel. That doesn't even include the benefits to scaling up manufacturing.

#28 | Posted by oneironaut

Corporate slaves love finding new ways to pay oligarchs for their electricity.

Mine is free.

#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-14 08:49 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You must have gotten a really crappy lump of coal.

I worked in a coal processing plant for 40 years. I've seen many lumps of coal.

#34 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-14 09:00 PM | Reply

"I worked in a coal processing plant for 40 years. I've seen many lumps of coal."

Then you've probably seen ones like this:

showmerockhounds.com

That's the type I always wanted as a kid.

#35 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-09-14 09:35 PM | Reply

Then you've probably seen ones like this

Some, but not much. Most of it is bituminous metallurgical coal.

#36 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-14 09:43 PM | Reply

I'll bet you know your way around a pile of coke, eh?

#37 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-09-14 10:51 PM | Reply

Say hello to my little friend!

#38 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-09-14 11:23 PM | Reply

Mine is free.

#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-14 08:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

You're a liar.

#39 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-15 10:09 AM | Reply

You're a liar.

#39 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

"Free" electricity?

Once the investment costs are made good, wind and solar can do that for you.

#40 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-15 10:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You're a liar.

#39 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Just say FAKE NEWS like your cult leader does when confronted with facts that he doesn't like.

#41 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 12:41 PM | Reply

Once the investment costs are made good...
#40 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-15 10:12 AM | Reply | Flag:

So it's not free

#42 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-15 01:41 PM | Reply

Just say FAKE NEWS like your cult leader does when confronted with facts that he doesn't like.

#41 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 12:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

Just enlighten us on how exactly you get free electricity. Go on...

#43 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-15 01:42 PM | Reply

So it's not free

#42 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Once the investment costs are made good, wind and solar can do that for you (free electricity).

#44 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-15 01:58 PM | Reply

Once the investment costs are made good, wind and solar can do that for you (free electricity).

#44 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-15 01:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's not free until you've regained the cost of your solar equipment in electricity usage.

Even then, there's maintenance/replacement costs involved. The other issue is that if you're just feeding the grid to offset your cost of electricity, when the power goes out, you're in the dark. That is, unless you invest in energy storage.

I'm not against solar; it definitely has its uses. But just stop with the free ----.

#45 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-15 02:15 PM | Reply

Have any of you done a break-even calculation on your solar cost vs your monthly electric bill?

#46 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-15 02:20 PM | Reply

Just enlighten us on how exactly you get free electricity. Go on...

#43 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Same way plants get free energy. What grade did school become too hard for you? Be honest.

#47 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 02:38 PM | Reply

Have any of you done a break-even calculation on your solar cost vs your monthly electric bill?

#46 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Have you done a break-even calculation on how much you're giving to energy corporations every year?
Hint - don't bother, you'll never break even.

#48 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 02:40 PM | Reply

Have any of you done a break-even calculation on your solar cost vs your monthly electric bill?

#46 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

It's done once every year around this time.

I break even almost every year at what is called "true-up".

Even if I didn't break even every year I bet I'd pay less than you.

And to top it off I always get a check from the Redwood Coast Energy Authority for the excess energy I feed back into the grid from my solar panels that PG&E does not pay. It's usually around $800.

#49 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-15 02:51 PM | Reply

#49 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-15 02:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

Solar wouldn't be a good investment for me, as my electricity is relatively low. There was a time I looked into the tax incentive for getting solar, but at that time it would've been around 20 years to realize any gain.

As I said, I'm not against solar but it has to be economically advantageous for me to fork out that kind of money up front. And it's just not right now.

#50 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-15 03:03 PM | Reply

-Just enlighten us on how exactly you get free electricity

same way he gets all his free ----.

someone else pays for it.

#51 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-15 03:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Have you done a break-even calculation on how much you're giving to energy corporations every year?

#48 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 02:40 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yes, that's how I arrived at my decision to not get solar. I don't buy EVs and solar farms like you do, because they're cool. It's pure economics.

#52 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-15 03:07 PM | Reply

-Just enlighten us on how exactly you get free electricity

same way he gets all his free ----.

someone else pays for it.

#51 | Posted by eberly

Please list the free ---- that I get. Or just start tap dancing and backing away from your post.

#53 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 03:13 PM | Reply

Yes, that's how I arrived at my decision to not get solar. I don't buy EVs and solar farms like you do, because they're cool. It's pure economics.

#52 | Posted by lfthndthrds

The pure economics of keeping our country hooked on oil is working out great lately isn't it?

#54 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 03:14 PM | Reply

Solar wouldn't be a good investment for me, as my electricity is relatively low.

If I was an incel living in my mom's basement/garage I probably wouldn't worry about the cost of electricity either.

#55 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-15 03:19 PM | Reply

You two idiots would pay twice as much just to say you beat the man.

#56 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-15 06:34 PM | Reply

The pure economics of keeping our country hooked on oil is working out great lately isn't it?

#54 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 03:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

I take it you did the break-even calculation and you're too embarrassed to tell the class that you're stuck for 20+ years before you realize your first penny of free electricity.

Because neither of you two economic zingers have even touched that question.

#57 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-15 06:50 PM | Reply

The pure economics of keeping our country hooked on oil is working out great lately isn't it?
~SpeakLikeAFool

Oh I thought solar was FREE?

#58 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-15 06:55 PM | Reply

If I was an incel living in my mom's basement/garage I probably wouldn't worry about the cost of electricity either.

Assuming you don't live with your mom, I take it you do worry about the cost of electricity?
OR
You do live with your mom, and don't worry about the cost?

#59 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-15 06:56 PM | Reply

Oh, for ----- sake, I doubt any of these dip ----- living on the West Coast actually have invested into solar panels.

They don't have to prove it and I don't have to believe it so we can just leave it at that

Speakstupid bragged about owning a Tesla right up to the point where Elon Musk told him to go ---- himself.

It's not like anybody here believed he bought a Tesla in the first place

#60 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-15 07:07 PM | Reply

Why is it that rwingers like Bev and 1Nut think that everyone else here lives somewhere beneath them, both economically and intellectually?

Because that's some of the funniest, and most Lame Trolling I've ever seen.

#61 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-15 07:18 PM | Reply

61

Fair question. But it's not because I'm a Rwinger.

Because I'm not really a Rwinger.

And with that you're coming close to answering your own question. We'll get there.

What Rwinger positions do I have?

#62 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-15 07:36 PM | Reply

You're a Do-Nothing Republican; not in opposition to the evil ----- leading your Party, like Rick Wilson or Thomas Massie or even MTrailorGreene... but more a 'who cares, not my problem, it's all just politics as usual Republican.

The only thing you actually do is whine about people who oppose the evil -----.

#63 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-15 07:42 PM | Reply

Oh, for ----- sake, I doubt any of these dip ----- living on the West Coast actually have invested into solar panels.

Its FREE why wouldn't they?


Why is it that rwingers like Bev and 1Nut think that everyone else here lives somewhere beneath them, both economically and intellectually?
~ Corky

I know you live in Florida, and in the worst educated county in the State.

Why wouldn't I think that?

#64 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-15 07:48 PM | Reply

63

So no positions.

You can't challenge any political position at all?

I challenge whiners. You have it backwards.

And there IS no opposition in excess of mine.

You DO NOTHING in opposition but whine about your life here.

I challenge ------- who do nothing but that.

Which doesn't make me a Rwinger.

It merely is total acknowledgment that you're a ----- and a punching bag.

#65 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-15 07:49 PM | Reply

The only thing you actually do is whine about people who oppose the evil -----.

Unlike you that only whines about money, especially other peoples money.

#66 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-15 07:49 PM | Reply

Which doesn't make me a Rwinger.

Not so fast! LMAO....

#67 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-15 07:49 PM | Reply

Oh, for ----- sake, I doubt any of these dip ----- living on the West Coast actually have invested into solar panels.

They don't have to prove it and I don't have to believe it so we can just leave it at that

Speakstupid bragged about owning a Tesla right up to the point where Elon Musk told him to go ---- himself.

It's not like anybody here believed he bought a Tesla in the first place

#60 | Posted by eberly

Oh goodie. I've missed hearing you confidently be completely wrong about who I am because I don't fit the image of liberals that have been fed to you by fascists.

Still waiting on you to fill me in on exactly what free ---- I'm getting.

#68 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 07:55 PM | Reply

Corky knows I'm not a right winger. He just does that.

He of all people know I'm a fence sitter.

#69 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-15 07:58 PM | Reply

I take it you did the break-even calculation and you're too embarrassed to tell the class that you're stuck for 20+ years before you realize your first penny of free electricity.

Because neither of you two economic zingers have even touched that question.

#57 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Every penny of solar electricity is free. It's the panels that cost money.

Just like if you bought a rain barrel to gather rain for your garden.

Are you going to tell me the rain isn't free?

Even if you're going to include the cost of the panels as your electricity cost (which it isn't, because it adds value to your home) you're still going to own them and then have free electricity from that point, which will NEVER happen if you stick to fossil fuels.

#70 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 08:01 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Flag:

The pure economics of keeping our country hooked on oil is working out great lately isn't it?
~SpeakLikeAFool

Oh I thought solar was FREE?

#58 | Posted by oneironaut

My energy is free. Yours isn't and will never be.

You should get a job, then a house, then some solar, and you can experience what it's like to be free of the energy oligarchs who are ruining the world.

#71 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-09-15 08:04 PM | Reply

Oh, for ----- sake, I doubt any of these dip ----- living on the West Coast actually have invested into solar panels.

Shows what you know about California. California leads the nation (as usual) with over 2.4 million solar systems statewide. Including me.

I named my Solar System after my wife. Because it's a gift that keeps on giving! Just like her.

#72 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-09-15 08:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

-oppose the evil -----.

I actually oppose the evil -----.

But while this is a schoolyard for you, it's not for me.

I don't need to chime in with "orange man" or whatever cute insult you post for validation you're liked by people here.

Wow ... ... you're that big of a juvenile?

#73 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-15 08:07 PM | Reply

- you live in Florida, and in the worst educated county in the State.

Actually it's not the worst, but your idiotic assumption that everyone who has at some point moved to this county is poorly educated is hilarious.

It indicates an IQ of about 40.

- You DO NOTHING in opposition but whine

Still a Psychic, then? You know what I and everyone else do politically?

Wow... you're a Legend in your own mind.

#74 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-15 08:10 PM | Reply

-You know what I and everyone else do politically?

You've posted here a long time.

You're some activist and keep it all to yourself?

Christ, I wonder if most here even vote. They're so ignorant about how ballots and elections work. What goes on locally in their communities. How tax dollars are allocated, how anything really works.

So it's quite improbable any of you come anywhere near doing what I do with regards to political activism.

#75 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-15 08:21 PM | Reply

"you're a Legend in your own mind."

Slapping a juvenile around isn't legend level

It's actually abuse.

I should be ashamed.

#76 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-15 08:26 PM | Reply

We can't all all be geniuses like you... or as politically active? You?

So, all this time you've been the exulted political child of Rick Wilson and MTG, but you played the prostate inflamed Fence Sitter here?

You should have gone into acting!

#77 | Posted by Corky at 2026-09-15 08:27 PM | Reply

See? Anger and hostility. Nothing else.

Capitalism, success, etc ... ..bothers the living ---- out of you.

It's really ------- unfair, huh?

#78 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-15 08:31 PM | Reply

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