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Coal Power’s Comeback Isn’t Spurring New Investment
Coal-fired power generation is having something of a moment. It isn’t clear just how long it will last.
President Trump is trying to throw a lifeline to coal, the once-dominant fuel source for the U.S. power grid that has been in steep decline for more than 15 years. His efforts, combined with the boom in construction of power-hungry artificial-intelligence data centers, could keep coal plants that were once slated for retirement operating years longer than expected.
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