President Donald Trump has grand plans to revive what he calls “beautiful clean coal,” but much of the world is doing the opposite.
More than a dozen countries in Europe have stopped using coal or plan to stop this decade. Ireland became the latest when it closed its only coal-fired power station last week.
In Latin America, the halt of planned coal power plants this year in Brazil and Honduras left the region without a single proposed coal-based plant.
The reason, United Kingdom Climate Minister Kerry McCarthy said Wednesday at a climate event in London: Clean energy is a “vast economic opportunity as well as a climate imperative.”