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Indonesia, a major coal exporter, uses coal to power around 60% of its electricity needs but the government is aiming to double the contribution of renewables Via EcoVadis 
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Reporters in 14 newsrooms across the Midwest teamed up with InsideClimate News to explore local solutions to climate change.
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Appalachian coal production has been on shaky ground almost since the industry’s inception in the mid 19th century. After the Civil War, industrialization meant a nearly limitless demand for…
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The main exporters of thermal coal for coal-fired power plants to the U.K. have experienced a heavy decline in seaborne cargo volumes in 2016.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is only a problem if you are trying to keep the old, dirty, and dangerous fossil fuel companies empowered. For those seeking new careers and greener jobs/energy it is not so bad.
Coal is clearly dead and going the way of the horse and buggy. It is only a question of how quickly it will be phased out.
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Groups are battling over just how toxic the Dan River's waters have become.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Mmmmmmmm.....coal ash.
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Weatherizing homes and using more renewable energy could be part of Kentucky's program to lower carbon-dioxide pollution, but the model the state favors also would preserve a role for coal in electricity production.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is simply crazy.
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The message from the industry-supported meeting: Push as much deregulation as possible while Trump is in power and never apologize for promoting oil, gas and coal.
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Captains of industry such as Elon Musk and Bob Iger have led corporate opposition to President Trump's climate policies, but is their position about global warming or their bottom lines?
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Aiming to keep Wyoming electric utilities dependent on coal, the legislature proposes a bill preventing them from using the state's abundant wind power to in-state customers.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This is just insane. First Pruitt's comments about California's permission to manage it's own airspeed and now this.
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Strip mines in the Powder Ridge Basin of Wyoming and Montana are isolated and out of sight. Their efforts to expand exports of coal to Asia are making them more visible.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Ever cheap, ever abundant coal is the "come on, are we really all that bad" and the "come on, we've been burning this for centuries, lets just keep doing what we've been doing" of the energy sector.
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