How Trump’s Coal Plant Obsession is Making Energy More Expensive
Coal plants are dirty, expensive, and unreliable. President Trump is determined to keep them open anyway. Here's how the rest of us are paying the price.
Nov 18, 2025
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Coal plants are dirty, expensive, and unreliable. President Trump is determined to keep them open anyway. Here's how the rest of us are paying the price.
Nov 18, 2025Across the country, voters turned out to elect state and local leaders who will make enormous decisions to protect our environment and democracy. Our state affiliates invested all year to make sure environmental champions won these races.
Each month, LCV shares five stories about the impact of our work. This month, we’re focusing on the No Kings peaceful protests, holding congressional Republicans accountable for rising energy prices, state clean energy progress, celebrating 10 years of Chispa, and our innovative work with content creators on public lands.
In this month's good climate news, we're celebrating state victories that put people over Big Polluters.
As the Trump administration cuts clean energy and climate programs, these states know rising electricity costs and climate disasters mean we need to increase clean energy and climate resources, not take them away.
Each month, LCV shares five stories about the impact of our work. This month, we’re focusing on how we opposed the Big Ugly Bill and what’s next — along with more than a dozen state-level clean energy wins, new commitments in Maine and Ohio, and new clean water protections in Texas.