President Trump’s effort to keep a Kentucky coal plant from closing failed Thursday, as the Tennessee Valley Authority voted to shutter the plant.

TVA, a huge federally owned power company based in the Southeast, said it reviewed all parties’ concerns, including the president’s, in making its final decision to close the Paradise Fossil Energy plant along with another, the Bull Run coal facility.

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