"The EPA administrator and other Trump officials on Tuesday celebrated coal’s comeback under President Donald Trump and called for more industry support."
"EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin promised to deliver for the coal industry Tuesday, as part of a broader push to reverse the sector’s fate.
“Many of the items that were on your wish list are now done,” Zeldin told members of the National Coal Council gathered at the Willard hotel in Washington. “Over the course of the coming few months, hopefully [we get to] the remainder of those items, although I will not prejudge the outcome of any rulemaking.”
The Trump administration is pouring billions of dollars into the coal sector, clawing back regulations and working to build an export hub on the West Coast to ship more coal abroad while courting countries like India as potential purchasers of metallurgical coal.
Zeldin — speaking at the second meeting of the newly revived National Coal Council — ticked through a list of regulations that the administration has already rolled back. That included EPA’s move to roll back federal oversight of coal ash, coal wastewater, and moves to repeal the 2024 updates to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards regulation, as well as carbon pollution standards.
“Between now and your next meeting, I’m excited to be able to share with great optimism, hope, and enthusiasm that you all, again, not prejudging the outcome of any rulemaking, we’ll have a lot to celebrate the next time you all get together again in January,” said Zeldin, speaking to a gathering of Trump administration officials and coal and railroad industry insiders."
