As part of our series on Project 2025, we look at some instances where President Donald Trump and Project 2025 agree on climate change and fossil fuels — beginning with the rollback of climate change policies.
Issues: Coal
Trump’s Misleading Promotion of ‘Clean’ Coal
While presenting a series of executive orders conceived to increase electricity generation from coal, President Donald Trump misleadingly suggested that environmental regulations were to blame for the industry’s decline, wrongly said that coal plants are being opened “all over Germany,” and misleadingly, and repeatedly, referred to coal as “clean.”