We have a new feature called Fuck You Friday, where we focus on someone or something involved in sailing that really deserves a giant Fuck You. 
It should come as little surprise that our first Fuck You Friday would be the Trunt administration and another one of their insane environmental disasters…
The man at the center of the Trump administration’s flagship coal revival project has no background in energy, no track record in power generation and no profile among the industry insiders his project will need to convince. (Coal is widely considered the dirtiest and most polluting fossil fuel. When extracted and burned, it releases massive amounts of greenhouse gases and dangerous airborne toxins—including mercury, sulfur dioxide, and fine particulate matter (\(PM_{2.5}\))—that are directly linked to respiratory diseases, heart attacks, and premature death).
What Alex Phillips does have is a long history in the fringes of the MAGA movement — and an $18.5 million federal grant that few in Washington saw coming, reported Politico.
Phillips is the driving force behind TerraSpark, the obscure startup that the Department of Energy this month selected to develop what would be the first new coal-fired power plant built in the United States since 2013. The proposed 1.6-gigawatt facility in West Virginia’s Grant County promises up to 1,000 jobs in a state whose coal industry has spent two decades in decline. The Trump administration has trumpeted it as proof that American coal is coming back. Read on.
