Climate Change
Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far
Midwestern electricity ratepayers will pay the still-mounting tab under a plan Consumers Energy reported to regulators and investors.
The Trump administration’s emergency order to keep the huge J.H. Campbell coal plant on Lake Michigan operating past its planned retirement date has cost at least $80 million since May, its operator, Consumers Energy, told regulators and investors this week.
Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far