Study That Failed to Back Trump’s Coal Rescue Plan Is Kept Under Wraps

"WASHINGTON – A report commissioned by the Energy Department failed to reach conclusions favoring the Trump administration’s efforts to prop up coal and nuclear power – and remains under wraps six months after submission.

“The report hasn’t seen the light of day,” the principal author, Michael Webber tweeted on Friday.

The analysis by the University of Texas’s Webber Energy Group was delivered six months ago and debunks the administration’s primary argument for taking extraordinary measures to keep coal plants operating, Webber said. “The three points the report makes are useful and counter to the narrative – and squashed,” he said in an interview."

Ari Natter and Jennifer A Dlouhy report for Bloomberg October 12, 2018.

Source: Bloomberg, 10/15/2018