Chris Wright: America's War on Coal Ends Now
About a year ago on the Energy Realities Podcast, I went out on a limb and predicted that by the end of 2026, rapidly rising power and industrial demands would dictate that the U.S. would not only halt the closing of coal-fired power plants, but the revival of mothballed plants and even the permitting of new coal plants in baseload-hungry states like Texas. On Wednesday, Chris Wright announced a move in that direction starting now to halt what has been a gradual deindustrialization of the U.S. economy in the 21st century.
Here’s what Wright had to say in an interview with Bloomberg:
