Comer Expresses Concern With White House’s Global Coal Commitment

A top House Republican is criticizing the Biden administration’s decision to join a coalition of countries aiming to phase out coal generation, and seeking additional information about the administration’s consultation with environmental groups on the matter. White House climate envoy John Kerry’s “call to ‘stop building new unabated coal power plants’ harms U.S. energy security,” House Oversight & Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) argues in a Jan. 5 letter , noting that coal supplies around 20 percent of the...