“Coal is “clean,” “cheap” and “incredibly efficient,” people have bemoaned and decimated the industry “for absolutely no reason.”
What FactCheck.org found
Experts agree the main culprit for the decrease in coal-fired power in recent decades was the surge of more cost-effective and cleaner kinds of energy, especially natural gas. Also, coal combustion emits more carbon emissions than any other fossil fuel used to produce power, not to mention other pollutants.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 8 April 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 April 2025, 8 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-energy-exploration-exe…
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