End coal mining in the UK, environmentalists urge government

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Environmentalists have written to ministers, asking them to reform the planning system so that all future coal mines are automatically refused

Environmentalists have urged the government to kill off new coal mines in the UK, by reforming the planning system to block their development. Friends of the Earth, along with the RSPB, WWF and a group...

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