So they pollute, they raise the price of power for Michigan residents, they don't provide any needed power, everyone in charge wants them closed down and local people don't want them either. Is Trump ordering them to stay open just because informed and responsible people say they should close? Is it just the government equivalent of rolling coal in the face of a cyclist because you're bitter about how your life has gone?
The entire motivation for the typical con voter is to metaphorically and sometimes literally, roll coal in the face of others. Even if it affects them, too. It's about hatefulness and spite and cruelty to others.
This is the party that will let Taco take a dump in their mouth if they think a liberal would have to smell it, too.
Keep the doors open with the plants no longer in operation. Turn the facilities into museums chronicling archaic power generation. Retain the staff as curators and tour guides.
Can’t “Make Coal Great Again” unless you force there to be customers. Why doesn’t everyone consider the profit margins of coal oligarchs in West Virginia? At least have pity for the automated equipment that would be out of jobs