On April 8, President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders calling for the nation to expand the mining and burning of coal, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels. It was all part of a larger effort on the president鈥檚 part to 鈥渦nleash America鈥檚 energy.鈥

The president has also tried to freeze clean energy investments that were passed through the Biden administration鈥檚 Inflation Reduction Act. But Judge John McConnell of the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island issued a preliminary injunction against that effort, noting in his decision that the executive branch does not have the power to block spending approved by Congress.

Jus Tavcar is a climate and clean energy policy advocate and a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This column was produced for Progressive Perspectives, a project of The Progressive magazine, and distributed by Tribune News Service.

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