Despite Trump's rhetoric, there are few signs of a coal boom in the US.
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In the United States, pledges to revive the coal sector have become a political battleground, even though the industry employs only about 50,000 people.
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Coal decline in the US is largely explained by its inability to compete with domestic shale gas and renewables at home, and high-volume, low-cost exporters abroad.
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MAP: Coal Trade Flows Over the past ten years, China and India’s growing demand transformed the trade. Australia and Indonesia emerged as the world’s biggest exporters, accounting for over half of global exports. (http://resourcetrade.earth )pic.twitter.com/7oB5941PaG
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Britain, which was the first country to develop coal-fired power, may now be one of the first to end it. Read More:https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/twt/future-coal …
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Coal industries employ a lot but that lot won't survive the catastrophe of climate change in a feed years time. It can't be making economic sense and sabotaging the environment at the same time.
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