Strengthening United States National Defense With America's Beautiful Clean Coal Power Generation Fleet

EO 14386 is an executive action signed by President (name not specified in the document) that directs the federal government to prioritize coal-fired power for national defense purposes (Sec. 1, Sec. 2). The order requires the Secretary of War, working with the Secretary of Energy, to seek long-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with U.S. coal generation facilities to serve Department of War installations and mission-critical sites (Sec. 3). It frames coal as essential to national and economic security and ties this policy to prior executive orders addressing energy reliability (Sec. 2). This matters because it steers military energy buying toward coal, which could affect local jobs, utility contracting, and community energy planning (Sec. 3).