# 2025-06380: Feds Reinvigorate Beautiful Clean Coal for Jobs Boom

2025-06380, Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-04-14, effective 2025-04-08; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-06).

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- As of: 2026-11-06
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-06380
- Title: Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 15517
- Published: 2025-04-14
- Effective: 2025-04-08
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-06

## In one line

Feds Reinvigorate Beautiful Clean Coal for Jobs Boom

## 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.

## Effects PRIA read

- Designating Coal as a ‘Mineral’: benefit, medium. 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.
- Prioritizing Coal Leasing On Federal Lands: benefit, high. 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 mor…
- Identify And Revise Anti-Coal Policies: benefit, high. 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…
- Review Financing Charters And International Guidance: benefit, medium. 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 financi…
- Promoting Coal Exports And Offtake Deals: benefit, medium. 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: benefit, medium. 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: benefit, medium. 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 c…
- Assess Coal For Powering AI Data Centers: benefit, low. 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 rep…
- Accelerating Coal Technology Funding: benefit, medium. 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…

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## Sources
- [2025-06380 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/14/2025-06380/reinvigorating-americas-beautiful-clean-coal-industry-and-amending-executive-order-14241)
- [2025-06380 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-14/pdf/2025-06380.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-06380 (as of 2026-11-06).
