{"id":18877,"date":"2026-02-11T23:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-directs-pentagon-to-boost-coal-use-as-energy-department-announces-175m-infusion-for-plants\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:22:22","slug":"trump-directs-pentagon-to-boost-coal-use-as-energy-department-announces-175m-infusion-for-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-directs-pentagon-to-boost-coal-use-as-energy-department-announces-175m-infusion-for-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump directs Pentagon to boost coal use as Energy Department announces $175M infusion for plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday directed the Pentagon to purchase more power from coal plants in a boost to the declining fossil fuel. &ldquo;I will sign an executive order that directs the Department of War to work directly with coal plants on the new power purchasing agreements&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/5734350-coal-power-trump-doe-pentagon\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Wednesday directed the Pentagon to purchase more power from coal plants in a boost to the declining fossil fuel. &ldquo;I will sign an executive order that directs the Department of War to work directly with coal plants on the new power purchasing agreements&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}