President Trump Signs Executive Order to Revitalize “Beautiful, Clean” Coal Industry

President Trump just signed a series of executive orders aimed at reviving the American coal industry — an industry which has been decimated underneath the Biden and Obama administrations.

This will be done by slashing regulations and designating coal as a valuable mineral, which will allow it to be used with more leeway. In turn, this will boost the reliability of our nation’s energy grid.

Coal workers were present as President Trump signed the orders, and many thanked him for saving their jobs.

“Today, we’re taking historic action to help American workers, miners, families and consumers,” President Trump said,

“We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all. And it wasn’t just Biden, it was Obama, and there were others. But we’re doing the exact opposite. And all those plants that have been closed are going to be opened.”

Truly incredible.

Check it out:

.@POTUS signs executive orders to:

— Reinvigorate America's beautiful clean coal industry
— Lift Biden-era restrictions on coal plants
— Strengthen the reliability and security of the electric grid
— Protect American energy from overreach by radical leftists in the states pic.twitter.com/Wf9KzjQRCs

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 8, 2025

🚨 COAL IS BACK: Trump signs executive order to keep alive, and revive, coal plants in the U.S.

While he does so – a room full of coal workers cheer him on.

What a sight to behold. pic.twitter.com/bgGHzuuTxz

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 8, 2025

Trump is currently being cheered by dozens of coal miners as he signs an executive order to save their dying industry.

What a beautiful sight. pic.twitter.com/bioNVcdSSf

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) April 8, 2025

President Trump hilariously specified that he is boosting the “beautiful, clean” coal industry.

You gotta love him.

.@POTUS: “I call it BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN coal—I tell my people to never use the word coal unless you put ‘beautiful, clean’ before it.” 😂 pic.twitter.com/BVtadUWJfq

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) April 8, 2025

The executive order reads:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. In order to secure America’s economic prosperity and national security, lower the cost of living, and provide for increases in electrical demand from emerging technologies, we must increase domestic energy production, including coal. Coal is abundant and cost effective, and can be used in any weather condition. Moreover, the industry has historically employed hundreds of thousands of Americans. America’s coal resources are vast, with a current estimated value in the trillions of dollars, and are more than capable of substantially contributing to American energy independence with excess to export to support allies and our economic competitiveness. Our Nation’s beautiful clean coal resources will be critical to meeting the rise in electricity demand due to the resurgence of domestic manufacturing and the construction of artificial intelligence data processing centers. We must encourage and support our Nation’s coal industry to increase our energy supply, lower electricity costs, stabilize our grid, create high-paying jobs, support burgeoning industries, and assist our allies.

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States that coal is essential to our national and economic security. It is a national priority to support the domestic coal industry by removing Federal regulatory barriers that undermine coal production, encouraging the utilization of coal to meet growing domestic energy demands, increasing American coal exports, and ensuring that Federal policy does not discriminate against coal production or coal-fired electricity generation.

Sec. 3. Strengthening Our National Energy Security. The Chair of the National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC) shall designate coal as a “mineral” as defined in section 2 of Executive Order 14241 of March 20, 2025 (Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production), thereby entitling coal to all the benefits of a “mineral” under that order. Further, Executive Order 14241 is hereby amended by deleting the reference to “4332(d)(1)(B)” in section 6(d) of that order and replacing it with a reference to “4532(d)(1)(B)”.

Sec. 4. Assessing Coal Resources and Accessibility on Federal Lands. (a) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Energy shall submit a consolidated report to the President through the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy that identifies coal resources and reserves on Federal lands, assesses impediments to mining such coal resources, and proposes policies to address such impediments and ultimately enable the mining of such coal resources by either private or public actors.

(b) The Secretary of Energy shall include in the report described in subsection (a) of this section an analysis of the impact that the availability of the coal resources identified could have on electricity costs and grid reliability.

Sec. 5. Lifting Barriers to Coal Mining on Federal Lands. (a) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prioritize coal leasing and related activities, consistent with applicable law, as the primary land use for the public lands with coal resources identified in the report described in section 4(a) of this order and expedite coal leasing in these areas, including by utilizing such emergency authorities as are available to them and identifying opportunities to provide for expedited environmental reviews, consistent with applicable law.

CBS News has more details:

President Trump signed four executive actions on Tuesday aimed at reversing policies that transitioned the country away from coal production and aimed at boosting America’s “beautiful clean coal industry,” as the White House put it.

The actions are meant to help the U.S. achieve affordable and reliable energy by “slashing unnecessary regulations,” Mr. Trump said. The president said he’s using the Defense Production Act to “turbocharge” coal mining in America. Mr. Trump also said his administration is working through the legalities of making it harder for companies to shut down coal plants.

“Today, we’re taking historic action to help American workers, miners, families and consumers,” Mr. Trump said in the White House East Room, flanked by men in coal mining uniforms and hard hats. “We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all. And it wasn’t just Biden, it was Obama, and there were others. But we’re doing the exact opposite. And all those plants that have been closed are going to be opened.”

Mr. Trump has had a long affinity for coal, as previous Democratic administrations and many developed nations have worked to move away from the fossil fuel toward renewable resources. The term “clean coal” typically refers to processes designed to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants, but environmental groups say any coal combustion is harmful.

The president’s move Tuesday defines coal as a “mineral,” which the administration says will give it more leeway on its use. The government has traditionally classified it as a nonrenewable fossil fuel. One of the executive orders directs agencies to lift barriers to coal mining on federal lands and prioritize coal leasing, formally ending an Obama-era moratorium against coal leasing on federal land. The president also directed federal agencies to rescind any policies transitioning the country away from coal production.