{"id":44,"date":"2026-06-06T00:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:34:12","slug":"trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is using a 1935 wartime law to keep the most expensive power in America on your bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is gonna piss you off, but we gotta talk about coal.<\/p>\n

There’s a sentence written in 1935 that’s about to show up on your power bill.<\/p>\n

Trump put out a poster this week – a coal miner with a pickaxe, smokestacks behind him, the words “President Trump’s Coal Actions Create 14,000 Jobs.” Very Depression-era.<\/p>\n

It’s fitting because the legal trick holding the whole thing up was also written during the Depression, and it was never meant to be used the way they’re using it.<\/p>\n

The sentence lives in Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act. Congress passed it in 1935, and it does one thing: it lets the federal government order a power plant to keep running during an emergency.<\/p>\n

Now – as I am sure you know – back then that power was built for war and disaster. The actual Senate report from 1935 (number 621, if you want to look it up) said they wrote it to avoid repeating the power shortages of the last war. It made sense that if the lights are about to go out, the government can force the grid to hold together, and then it lets go. For about ninety years that’s basically all it did. It got used a few dozen times, almost always for hurricanes, heat waves, or winter storms, and usually because the grid operators themselves asked for the help.<\/p>\n

Now it’s being used to force coal plants to keep burning after the companies that own them already voted to shut them down.<\/p>\n

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has been signing these orders one after another – Michigan, Indiana, Colorado, Washington State. The plants were headed for retirement because their own owners ran the numbers and found coal too expensive to keep paying for.<\/p>\n

So this idiot Wright declares an “emergency,” and the plant stays open anyway. Nobody asked him to. In the Michigan case, neither the utility nor the regional grid operator requested the order. He just decided that a coal plant’s retirement date is now a national emergency.<\/p>\n

And the orders aren’t even buying reliable power. Several of the plants blocked from retirement weren’t running when the orders hit – they needed repairs or the grid simply didn’t need them. The Campbell plant in Michigan partially failed in the summer of 2025, during the very stretch the government was calling it essential. An order can be renewed every 90 days, forever, so “temporary” has quietly become permanent.<\/p>\n

BUT WHY – you may ask. Me too.<\/p>\n

By one tally, the coal industry put about six million dollars into Republican campaigns in 2024, roughly three and a half million of it behind Trump. In the spring of 2024, he sat down with fossil fuel executives at Mar-a-Lago and, by several accounts in the room, asked them to raise a billion dollars for his campaign, telling them the rollbacks would be worth far more to them than that. A wartime electricity law, aimed at the free market, is what they bought.<\/p>\n

Look – as I always lead with – I’m running for a single House seat, and one member of the House can’t walk in and tear up an order the Energy Secretary already signed. The courts are carrying that fight right now – the Sierra Club and Earthjustice already got the Michigan order in front of the D.C. Circuit.<\/p>\n

What a member of Congress can actually do is address the loophole, not the order. The fix is to rewrite that 1935 sentence so an “emergency” has to be a real, short, documented grid emergency – the grid operator has to ask for it, there’s a hard limit on how many times it can be renewed, and ratepayers can’t be charged for keeping a plant alive past the date the market already retired it.<\/p>\n

Right now the law lets one official decide what the word “emergency” means. You take that pen away by writing the definition into the law.<\/p>\n

This isn’t only a Republican habit, either. Both parties have gotten comfortable governing through “emergency” because declaring one is easier than passing a bill, and that’s been creeping for decades under presidents of both stripes. The difference is where they aim it.<\/p>\n

Pointing a wartime grid power at a coal company’s accounting is a brand-new use, and it’s a precedent that outlives whoever’s in office – the next president inherits the same pen.<\/p>\n

Now, why this matters in District 5 – even though it hasn’t reached us yet. Most of us here get our power through TVA, and so far none of these emergency orders have hit a Tennessee plant. But look at what’s already happened one grid over. For the Campbell plant in Michigan, federal regulators at FERC already signed off on spreading the bill across an eleven-state region – and turned down the request to keep the cost inside Michigan. The Indiana plant’s owner asked for the very same deal. So the precedent is set: when Washington forces a dead plant to stay lit, the people who pay aren’t the people who live next to it. They’re whoever’s on the same regional grid.<\/p>\n

If we’ve learned anything from waking up to data centers being built in our backyard – usually after the deal was already signed – it’s that the time to head this off is before the order lands here, not after. TVA territory is exactly the kind of place this lands next. An independent firm, Grid Strategies, ran the numbers for a group of environmental and consumer groups last year and estimated the national running tab at three to six billion dollars a year if this keeps spreading. None of us got a vote on that.<\/p>\n

Look – you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to read Lazard’s 2025 numbers. Coal power runs around 122 dollars a megawatt-hour. The same electricity from natural gas runs about 78, from wind about 61, and from solar about 58. There’s no shortage of cheaper power. There’s a shortage of donors who own the cheaper power.<\/p>\n

A law from 1935, written so a world war couldn’t black out the country, is now being used to keep the most expensive electricity in America switched on so a handful of campaign donors get paid.<\/p>\n

The good news is that this one comes down to a single word in a single statute, and a single word can be rewritten. Define what an emergency actually is, put the limit in writing, and the blank check disappears. That’s a bill I’d file, and a vote I’d want every member from both parties forced to take in public.<\/p>\n

Let’s fix this.<\/p>\n

\n

Sources<\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. Congressional Research Service: Federal Power Act Section 202(c) emergency authority<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Niskanen Center: history and original 1935 purpose of Section 202(c)<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. From Wartime Authority to Energy Policy Tool: DOE’s reinterpretation of 202(c)<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Stateline: Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open, and the Lazard cost figures<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Utility Dive: FERC approves spreading Campbell plant costs across the region<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Grid Strategies analysis: $3-6 billion a year in ratepayer costs<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. NRDC: DOE forcing the Campbell coal plant to stay open in Michigan<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Scientific American: Trump’s June 2026 coal support announcement<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Climate Power: coal industry 2024 campaign contributions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is gonna piss you off, but we gotta talk about coal. There’s a sentence written in 1935 that’s about to show up on your power bill. Trump put out a poster this week – a coal miner with a pickaxe, smokestacks behind him, the words “President Trump’s Coal Actions Create 14,000 Jobs.” Very Depression-era. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[42,35,46,47,37,44,19,18,45,43,12,38],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district-5","category-federal-policy","tag-coal","tag-data-centers","tag-electric-bills","tag-emergency-powers","tag-energy","tag-federal-power-act","tag-memphis","tag-money-in-politics","tag-ratepayers","tag-section-202c","tag-tn-5","tag-tva"],"yoast_head":"\nThe 1935 Wartime Law Driving Up Your Power Bill<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Depression-era emergency power, written so a world war couldn't black out the country, is now forcing dead coal plants to stay open. The fix is one rewritten word.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The 1935 Wartime Law Driving Up Your Power Bill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Depression-era emergency power, written so a world war couldn't black out the country, is now forcing dead coal plants to stay open. The fix is one rewritten word.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rachel for TN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-06T00:34:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/coal-loophole-header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"rachel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"rachel\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"rachel\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f24b10ba7b01591095c789cf0b82294e\"},\"headline\":\"Trump is using a 1935 wartime law to keep the most expensive power in America on your bill\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-06T00:34:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1235,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/coal-loophole-header.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"coal\",\"data centers\",\"electric bills\",\"emergency powers\",\"energy\",\"Federal Power Act\",\"Memphis\",\"money in politics\",\"ratepayers\",\"Section 202c\",\"TN-5\",\"TVA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"District 5\",\"Federal policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/\",\"name\":\"The 1935 Wartime Law Driving Up Your Power Bill\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/coal-loophole-header.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-06T00:34:12+00:00\",\"description\":\"A Depression-era emergency power, written so a world war couldn't black out the country, is now forcing dead coal plants to stay open. The fix is one rewritten word.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/coal-loophole-header.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/coal-loophole-header.jpg\",\"width\":1536,\"height\":1024},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Trump is using a 1935 wartime law to keep the most expensive power in America on your bill\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Rachel for TN\",\"description\":\"Less Judgment. More Help.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"Rachel Hurley for Congress\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Rachel Hurley for TN\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/rachelfortnheader.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/rachelfortnheader.png\",\"width\":1774,\"height\":887,\"caption\":\"Rachel Hurley for TN\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f24b10ba7b01591095c789cf0b82294e\",\"name\":\"rachel\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9765deb76b5143a6cb465ebb2a67f1fb81ce8ef0684061f9038a7345c4331522?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9765deb76b5143a6cb465ebb2a67f1fb81ce8ef0684061f9038a7345c4331522?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9765deb76b5143a6cb465ebb2a67f1fb81ce8ef0684061f9038a7345c4331522?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"rachel\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rachelfortn.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/rachel\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The 1935 Wartime Law Driving Up Your Power Bill","description":"A Depression-era emergency power, written so a world war couldn't black out the country, is now forcing dead coal plants to stay open. The fix is one rewritten word.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The 1935 Wartime Law Driving Up Your Power Bill","og_description":"A Depression-era emergency power, written so a world war couldn't black out the country, is now forcing dead coal plants to stay open. The fix is one rewritten word.","og_url":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/","og_site_name":"Rachel for TN","article_published_time":"2026-06-06T00:34:12+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1536,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/coal-loophole-header.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"rachel","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"rachel","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/"},"author":{"name":"rachel","@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f24b10ba7b01591095c789cf0b82294e"},"headline":"Trump is using a 1935 wartime law to keep the most expensive power in America on your bill","datePublished":"2026-06-06T00:34:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/"},"wordCount":1235,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/coal-loophole-header.jpg","keywords":["coal","data centers","electric bills","emergency powers","energy","Federal Power Act","Memphis","money in politics","ratepayers","Section 202c","TN-5","TVA"],"articleSection":["District 5","Federal policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/","url":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/","name":"The 1935 Wartime Law Driving Up Your Power Bill","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/coal-loophole-header.jpg","datePublished":"2026-06-06T00:34:12+00:00","description":"A Depression-era emergency power, written so a world war couldn't black out the country, is now forcing dead coal plants to stay open. The fix is one rewritten word.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/coal-loophole-header.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/coal-loophole-header.jpg","width":1536,"height":1024},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/trump-is-using-a-1935-wartime-law-to-keep-the-most-expensive-power-in-america-on-your-bill\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Trump is using a 1935 wartime law to keep the most expensive power in America on your bill"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/","name":"Rachel for TN","description":"Less Judgment. More Help.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Rachel Hurley for Congress","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Rachel Hurley for TN","url":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rachelfortnheader.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rachelfortnheader.png","width":1774,"height":887,"caption":"Rachel Hurley for TN"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f24b10ba7b01591095c789cf0b82294e","name":"rachel","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9765deb76b5143a6cb465ebb2a67f1fb81ce8ef0684061f9038a7345c4331522?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9765deb76b5143a6cb465ebb2a67f1fb81ce8ef0684061f9038a7345c4331522?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9765deb76b5143a6cb465ebb2a67f1fb81ce8ef0684061f9038a7345c4331522?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"rachel"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog"],"url":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/author\/rachel\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachelfortn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}