Trump orders Pentagon to buy coal-fired electricity

Surrounded by coal miners at a ceremony in the White House, Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to strike long-term agreements involving coal. Trump said coal was "critical to our national security" at the event, during which industry leaders presented the 79-year-old president with a trophy calling him the "undisputed champion of coal." The order said the use of coal would give US military bases and facilities "uninterrupted, on-demand baseload power," reflecting...