"White House officials have yet to reach a consensus over a Department of Energy proposal to subsidize ailing coal and nuclear plants, a top aide told a group of clean energy advocates at the White House yesterday.
Francis Brooke, a senior energy adviser to President Trump, told members of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) that it could take months to decide the fate of a DOE plan to help struggling coal and nuclear facilities, according to two people in attendance.
DOE's rescue plan was not initially planned as a topic of discussion. The meeting with BCSE was previously scheduled as a meet-and-greet with the newly installed Brooke, a 28-year-old former congressional aide who replaced Mike Catanzaro as one of the president's top energy advisers earlier this year (Climatewire, April 19)."
Benjamin Storrow and Zack Colman report for ClimateWire June 5, 2018.
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