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Coal Industry Deep Dive Part 3: The Non-Climate Costs

Coal Industry Deep Dive Part 3: The Non-Climate Costs

We’ve shown that the external harms of coal specifically associated with climate damage greatly exceed the gross revenues of the worldwide industry. Now, we turn to the less-heralded, non-climate costs. We show here that these costs also exceed the industry’s revenues. To reiterate: The coal industry’s external

Hope. Plan. Act.

Hope. Plan. Act.

Hope is not a plan. Dreaming is not doing. In order to build a better future, or even a survivable one, we each must act. The climate crisis is real; the attacks on democracy and on the rights of the weakest among us are real; the consolidation of a global

Coal Industry Deep Dive Part 2: A Context for Coal

Coal Industry Deep Dive Part 2: A Context for Coal

We’ve already shown that burning coal causes – still – nearly half of the Carbon Dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, and that the costs of coal’s climate harms are 4.6 times the gross revenues for coal sale worldwide. But cities need power and people have to stay warm and

Coal Industry Deep Dive Part 1: Calculating the Externalities

Coal Industry Deep Dive Part 1: Calculating the Externalities

If you’re reading this, you likely don’t need any persuading that coal is bad – bad for the environment. For the climate. For miners. For human health. Catastrophically bad. This may seem obvious to us, and it might look like coal is on its way out. But it’s