President Trump on Thursday announced $700 million in new federal funding for the country's struggling coal industry, including $185 million meant to build the first two new coal-burning power plants in the United States in more than a decade. It was the latest in a series of extraordinary efforts by his administration to improve the fortunes of coal, the most polluting of the fossil fuels and a favored industry of the president's.

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