We shouldn’t let controversy over the approval of one small, short-lived mine distract from more consequential decisions looming on coal.
The James H. Miller coal power plant in Alabama emitted as much carbon dioxide in 2021 as 4.6 million cars.
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After the Supreme Court overturned the Obama administration’s strategy for reducing power plant carbon emissions in 2022, the Biden administration is taking a narrower but still ambitious approach.
A worker leans on a collapsed pylon in Pretoria on April 12, 2023. Ageing infrastructure exacerbates the country’s energy supply crisis.
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Smoothing the transition to clean energy for fossil fuel workers and their communities requires local leadership and the support of a new federal authority
The good news is the world’s coal use has peaked – and will soon rapidly decline. Australia is leading the way, and the rest of the world must soon follow.
Whitehaven, Cumbria, Showing Flatt Hall by Matthias Read (1730-1735).
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As opponents of the Whitehaven Colliery protest, an expert on the cultural history of British landscapes revisits an 18th-century poem that reminds us of the town’s industrious spirit.