Fox Business pushes 'clean coal' and other energy falsehoods to rally behind Trump's so-called energy dominance plan
Fox Business’ The Big Money Show aired a segment purportedly on achieving American energy dominance in which the hosts used false narratives and missing context to cheerlead the president’s actions on energy.
Airing on April 7, the segment came several days after oil prices plunged to the lowest level since the pandemic due to market fears of a global recession – and hours before Trump signed his executive orders aimed at boosting coal production.
Here are five things Fox Business got wrong (or omitted) about energy:
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