US president Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, the world’s most polluting fossil fuel, which has also long been in decline.
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Under the orders, Trump uses his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for retirement to keep producing electricity to meet rising US power demand amid growth in data centres, artificial intelligence and electric cars
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