Clean coal? Yes; Dems radical climate dogma? No

Democrats’ radical green playbook is showing its decrepitude.Californians are sick of far-left climate policies that drive up prices for everything from energy to housing to gas prices and transportation.And the more the left clings to climate dogma, the further behind the state and nation fall to China, which builds coal plants at the rate of about two per week.Coal offers safe, cheap and reliable energy; Beijing gets that, even if Gov.Gavin Newsom and his fellow Dems don’t.So it was good to see President Trump step in this week, cut through the bilge, and support clean coal infrastructure.Trump’s executive order, based on national defense law, will pipe nearly $700 million to coal projects in 13 states, including California.Some $75 million will go toward building a coal export terminal in Oakland, which could ship millions of tons of US coal per year to Asian markets starting in 2028.Trump’s approach is sound.

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Never miss a story Of course, lefties –– who’ve spent years fighting big bad coal, including the Oakland terminal project –– are seething.Predictably, Newsom complained via multiple posts on X. “Ruining our democracy wasn’t enough for Trump,” he averred in one.“Now he’s destroying our planet, too.

Welcome to the Stone Age!”Sigh.Does anyone still buy this banal hyperbole?If clean, reliable, affordable, national-security-ensuring coal represents the Stone Age, sign us up.California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Insta...