Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.

No company in the United States has ever restarted a reactor that was seemingly closed for good, but there are now three major efforts underway to do so.

It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

Since April, the Defense Department has halted all military reviews for wind projects, stalling dozens of projects nationwide.

In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants.

The federal government wants to help utilities buy large components for up to 10 large nuclear reactors. It’s unclear which, if any, companies might participate.

It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.

More than 100 planned wind farms in 21 states are now stalled indefinitely as the Pentagon delays military reviews once seen as routine.

As the midterm elections approach, many leading Democrats are rethinking their approach to climate change.

The president announced a total of $700 million in federal money to reinvigorate the domestic coal industry, which has been in decline for decades.