Feds Reinvigorate Beautiful Clean Coal for Jobs Boom
Published Date: 4/14/2025
Presidential Document
Summary
This order boosts America's clean coal industry to create jobs, lower electricity costs, and strengthen energy security. It removes federal roadblocks, treats coal like a key mineral, and pushes for more coal production and exports. Coal workers, energy companies, and communities near coal lands will see changes starting right away, with important actions kicking off within 60 days.
Analyzed Economic Effects
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Prioritizing Coal Leasing On Federal Lands
Within 60 days of April 8, 2025, Interior, Agriculture, and Energy must submit a report identifying coal resources on Federal lands. The Interior and Agriculture Secretaries shall prioritize and expedite coal leasing on the public lands identified in that report, terminate the referenced Jewell moratorium Environmental Impact Statement by publishing a Federal Register notice, and process royalty rate reduction applications as expeditiously as law permits.
Identify And Revise Anti-Coal Policies
Within 30 days of April 8, 2025, federal agencies must identify guidance, regulations, programs, and policies that seek to transition the Nation away from coal. Within 60 days, agency heads shall consider revising or rescinding those Federal actions consistent with law, and agencies that make loans or guarantees must, to the extent permitted by law, take steps to rescind policies that discourage investment in coal.
Designating Coal as a ‘Mineral’
The Chair of the National Energy Dominance Council must designate coal as a “mineral” under section 2 of Executive Order 14241, entitling coal to all benefits of that status. This designation is ordered in Section 3 of the Executive Order dated April 8, 2025.
Review Financing Charters And International Guidance
Within 30 days of April 8, 2025, agencies that finance energy projects (including the State Department, Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, IDFC, and Export-Import Bank) must review charters, regulations, guidance, international agreements, and internal processes to ensure they do not discourage financing coal projects. Where appropriate and consistent with law, identified preferences against coal shall be eliminated.
Promoting Coal Exports And Offtake Deals
The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with State, Energy, the U.S. Trade Representative, and others, is ordered to take all appropriate actions to promote and identify export opportunities for coal and coal technologies and to facilitate international offtake agreements for U.S. coal.
Expand NEPA Categorical Exclusions For Coal
Within 30 days of April 8, 2025, each agency shall identify to the Council on Environmental Quality existing and potential categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act that, if relied upon, could further coal production and export pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 4336c.
Assessing Coal As A Critical Material For Steel
The Secretary of Energy must determine whether coal used in steel production meets the Energy Act of 2020 definition of a “critical material” and, if so, place it on the Department of Energy Critical Materials List. The Secretary of the Interior must determine whether metallurgical coal meets the criteria to be designated a “critical mineral” and, if so, place it on the Department of the Interior Critical Minerals List.
Accelerating Coal Technology Funding
The Secretary of Energy shall accelerate development, deployment, and commercialization of coal technologies and use available funding mechanisms. Within 90 days of April 8, 2025, the Secretary of Energy must submit a detailed action plan describing funding mechanisms, programs, and policy actions to accelerate coal technology deployment.
Assess Coal For Powering AI Data Centers
Within 60 days of April 8, 2025, Interior, Commerce, and Energy must identify regions where coal-powered infrastructure is available and suitable to support AI data centers, assess market and legal potential for expanding coal-based infrastructure for AI needs, and submit a consolidated summary report with findings.
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