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Here’s why Trump’s new strategy to keep ailing coal and nuclear plants open makes no sense

  • Written by James Van Nostrand, Director, Center for Energy and Sustainable Development; Professor of Law, West Virginia University
The Indian Point nuclear power station outside New York City will be decommissioned by 2021. AP Photo/Seth Wenig

President Donald Trump recently ordered Energy Secretary Rick Perry to take “immediate steps” to stop the closure of coal and nuclear power plants.

And according to a draft memo that surfaced the same day, the federal...

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