Are we doing enough to prepare for the last days of coal?

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The UK's coal phase out may be proceeding apace, but as Josh Burke argues there remains a gap where 'Just Transition' plans should sit

Another one bites the [proverbial] dust. Cottam Power Station has become the latest casualty of the coal industry exodus, part of the UK's transition away from coal generation. Its shutdown, on 7 February,...

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