Doug Burgum

It's a dirty industry potentially for the environment, but there's a lot of corruption around that in part because countries like America or like those in Europe that have rules, that have EPAs, that can do things cleaner, better, safer, smarter, both in terms of the environment, in terms of the labor force, basically got out of this business.

And we've got to get, the free world's got to get back into the mining business and show that with innovation,

that we can do it, and we can do it in a way that protects the environment, protects the workers, and also then protects the economies of these countries.

And so this is a strategic importance for the United States to get back in.

And part of that is the permitting process.

We've put a stranglehold on permitting, but President Trump, we're breaking the logjam on permitting.

Big announcements coming around the endangerment finding, and this is going to be a huge issue.

A huge step forward in terms of getting projects done and keeping plants open in America.

Well, we will be making some more announcements on beautiful clean coal today, as President Trump likes to call it and should call it, because there's a coal plant running in America today.

It has survived an onslaught for 20 years.

They've taken everything, virtually everything out of the NOx, the SOx, anything that would be considered coal.

an issue relative to the environment.

And what's left the attack on coal as a baseload power has been largely around CO2 emissions.

And with the reversal of the endangerment finding that says that this was massive overreach by the Obama EPA, that we are going to go back to a thing where we can have consumer choice, that's lower prices.

And of course, with the big storms we had in the Northeast last week, I mean,

Check back on Secretary Wright's press conference last Friday, but we would have had millions and millions of people in this country without power if coal hadn't stepped up.

Coal was the hero of keeping the lights and the heat on in America.

And all of the money that has been spent in the northeastern part of this country on renewables, there was times during those storms where we had less than 2% of the power coming from wind and solar.

There was more coming from burning wood and trash than there was coming from wind and solar.

And coal in some parts of the country was providing 25 percent of the electricity.