The human stories behind the 'coal wars'

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David Crane reflects on the community and employment impacts that will come with the inevitable decline of coal power

Just a decade ago, coal was flying high. Buoyed by high natural gas prices, with climate change but a distant concern to the hyper-myopic power industry, our singular focus at NRG was feeding the machine...

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