'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity

Almost exactly as you were making this comment he signed a bunch of stuff to "Reinvigorates America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry":

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...

And then he’s going to extort trading partners like the EU by essentially forcing them to buy polluting coal from the US or face ongoing sanctions.

Oh, wow. I assumed you were joking about the title, but... Is he having a toddler ghost-write these for him now?

This is what he's talking about, but... it doesn't make any sense, at all. What would "forcing the EU to buy coal" entail? The EU isn't a command economy and has no potential use for coal _itself_. The EU contains companies which require coal (albeit demand has been dropping for some time) but they're just going to buy whatever's cheapest, and particularly given it's _coal_, and has a very low value per tonne, that's generally more or less going to mean whatever's closest. Unless American coal was _radically_ cheaper than any other coal, it would be hard to cover the extra transport cost.