President Donald Trump’s nomination of conservative Bernard McNamee to the top US energy regulatory body could improve the chances for a federal bailout of older money-losing coal and nuclear plants that the White House wants – if he can win Senate confirmation.
McNamee, presently director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Policy, is among the administration officials who have publicly defended and lobbied for DOE’s controversial plan to provide cost recovery to those plants with 90 days of onsite fuel.
