BAD POLICY, DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES: COAL-FIRED POWER IN PUERTO RICO

摘要

In September 2019, in an article entitled "The Market Has Spoken: Coal Is Dying," Matt Egan of CNN Business wrote: President Donald Trump has gutted regulations on the coal industry, falsely claimed that windmills cause cancer and installed a former coal lobbyist to lead the [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] EPA. In the face of those efforts to rescue coal country, America's aging fleet of coal-fired plants continues to shrink. New plants are not getting built. Trump's vow to rip up environmental rules has been overwhelmed by an even more powerful force: the free market. Coal just can't keep up with dirt-cheap gas and increasingly affordable renewables.