Climate Change Weekly # 542 — More Ways Coal Improves the Economy and the Environment

Climate Change Weekly # 542 — More Ways Coal Improves the Economy and the Environment

Since misanthropic environmentalists and their Western-world-hating fellow travelers in academia and in the political realm discovered climate alarm as a fashionable and effective way to hamper economic growth and constrain consumerism, coal—long the foundation of industrial development and the modern power grid—became the ugliest of stepchildren in energy policy discussions.