News Item:
A draft plan circulating in the Trump White House would make use of a 68-year-old grant of emergency powers to force electrical companies to buy more power from coal and nuclear plants. The plan, based on a scheme that Rick Perry already tried to launch through the Energy Department, would raise prices for power, increase pollution, and represent the largest intervention of the government into the energy sector since World War II.
I eagerly await the administration’s regulations protecting pagers, fax machines, and Blockbuster. https://t.co/ykLJHT4OvK— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) June 1, 2018
"Trump administration officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants in an effort to extend their life."— hilzoy (@hilzoy) June 1, 2018
I never want to hear another word about how Democrats are the ones who interfere with the free market.
NEVER. https://t.co/w07rs9PKT8
