Trump Admin Takes Emergency Action To Keep Michigan Coal Plant Open
Washington Free BeaconMAY 24
Trump Administration Orders Michigan Coal Plant to Stay Open
Above: general view of the U.S. Department of Energy on Feb.14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Image copyright: Anna Moneymaker/Staff/Getty Images News via Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
The Trump administration's emergency order represents a prudent, crucial step to protect grid reliability and prevent potential blackouts during peak summer demand. Keeping the Campbell plant operational provides essential baseload power that can't be reliably replaced by intermittent renewable sources, ensuring energy security for Michigan residents and preventing unnecessary risks to the power supply. This is a pushback against reckless "energy subtraction" policies that harm everyday Americans.
Anti-Trump narrative
This reckless intervention undermines Michigan's carefully planned transition to clean energy and unnecessarily prolongs the operation of a polluting facility. The order ignores state-level planning that has already ensured adequate power supplies while forcing customers to bear increased costs for running an aging, inefficient coal plant that should be retired as scheduled. This is a manufactured emergency to boost Trump's coal-centric policies.