This is something of a measure of how successful the scale-up of renewables has been; it’s now much cheaper to switch to wind, solar, and batteries than it is to burn stuff. Not to mention having the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, which shows up at state regulatory hearings to point this out.
Trump Once Promised to Revive Coal. That Was So 2016. | Now, he trumpets oil and gas, and hardly mentions the dirtiest of the fossil fuels.
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EleventhHour@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oil barons have more money and influence than coal barons.