President Trump signed executive orders granting the Department of Energy emergency powers and wartime laws to increase coal production in order to boost steal manufacturing and provide energy to AI data centers. Specifically, Trump’s executive order defines coal as a “mineral” which allows it to fall under the guidelines for mineral production set by a previous executive order which orders increased production.
Sometimes, I find it helps to ask ourselves how we got to where we are now. My freshman year at Unionfest, as I was bobbing and weaving through a sea of barely-adults, I came across a table for the Sunrise Movement. I knew about the organization from its work with the Green New Deal and AOC, but I didn’t know that KU had a chapter! I scanned a QR code to join their GroupMe and eventually started showing up to meetings towards the end of my first semester.
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