Today, President Trump is taking action to help reverse the damage done to Maryland’s energy industry by directing federal support toward coal power infrastructure, including funding that could help restart Maryland’s Warrior Run power plant near Cumberland.
While combining the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law that gives presidents emergency authority over national security-related industries, and Department of Energy grants, President Trump is expected to send tens of millions of dollars to reopen the recently closed AES Warrior Run.
Maryland’s energy crisis was not an accident; it was a choice.
For years, Annapolis politicians and activists shut down reliable power, punished natural gas, forced unrealistic mandates onto families and businesses, and then acted shocked when electric bills exploded.