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{{#badges: CoalSwarm}} '''Federal coal subsidies''' are forms of financial assistance paid by federal taxpayers to the coal and power industry. Such subsidies include direct spending, tax breaks and exemptions, low-interest loans, loan guarantees, loan forgiveness, lein accommodations, grants, lost government revenue such as discounted royalty fees to mine federal lands, and federally-subsidized external costs, such as health care expenses and environmental clean-up due to the negative effects of coal use, as well as the loss or degradation of valuable ecosystem and community services.