The coal industry needs to know the game is up

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Ben Caldecott argues that the world needs to develop Coal Closure Funds to manage the necessary decline of the industry

Seeing the cooling towers of Didcot coal-fired power station being so expertly demolished in the early hours of Sunday morning was a wonderful spectacle. It is also an event we need to see repeated many...

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