Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241

It makes support for coal a federal priority and seeks to reverse policies that discourage coal production or use. It also links coal expansion to electricity demand from manufacturing and AI data centers.

What the order does ​

• Designates coal as a mineral eligible for benefits under a prior order on mineral production.
• Orders agencies to identify federal coal reserves, barriers to mining, and potential effects on electricity costs and grid reliability.
• Prioritizes and expedites coal leasing and environmental reviews on coal-bearing federal lands and formally ends a prior leasing-moratorium review.
• Directs agencies to identify and consider revising or rescinding policies that move the country away from coal.
• Directs federal financing and export agencies to remove preferences against coal projects where legally permitted.
• Promotes coal exports, coal technologies, and international purchase agreements.
• Requires agencies to identify streamlined environmental-review options that could support coal production and exports.
• Orders reviews of whether steelmaking coal qualifies for federal critical-material and critical-mineral lists.
• Directs agencies to identify regions where coal-powered infrastructure could support AI and high-performance computing data centers.
• Directs the Department of Energy to use available funding to accelerate coal technologies and products made from coal or coal byproducts.

Who it affects ​

• Coal producers, federal coal lessees, coal-fired power generators, and coal-technology developers.
• Steelmakers, manufacturers, AI data-center operators, and other large electricity users.
• Communities, workers, and land users near federal coal resources and coal-powered infrastructure.
• Federal agencies that regulate, finance, review, or promote energy and export projects.