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 * Coal** = a combustible black or dark brown rock consisting mainly of carbonized plant matter, found mainly in underground deposits and widely used as fuel.

Headlines
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/06/trumps-coal-backers-energy-power-rick-perry-244535 http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/digging-into-adani/9008500 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/15/trumps-love-affair-with-coal-215710 [|coal-power-plan-twice-the-cost-of-renewables-route-emissions-reduction] [|India's coal conundrum] [|environmentalists-get-a-dose-of-good-news] [] [|coal-is-not-amazing-on-social-media] [|coal-global-climate-change] [|Peabody-Energy-still-chafes-at-strip-mining] [|china-coal-carbon-climate-guardian] [|IEA Says Coal is Still the Fuel of Choice]

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/04/kentucky-coal-museum-is-installing-solar-panels-on-its-roof/

Clean Coal
How clean can coal be? What is clean coal? https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/30/clean-coal-myth-trump-carbon-capture-energy-no [|Clean Coal: Factsheet]

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Recommended viewing
[|CEE Bankwatch Network: Undermining Our Climate: Commercial Banks and the Coal Sector] (climate cop19)

Recommended listening
[|Clean energy politics: can you dig 'clean coal'?] - Renewable energy versus the 'clean coal' push - the US example.

[|Coal dependence and the renewables paradox] - Graham Palmer, who is an industrial engineer from Melbourne, discusses our dependence on coal.

[|The clean coal holy grail] - Paddy Manningtracks the quest for the clean coal holy grail and investigates the men getting unspeakably rich from the search.

Elsewhere
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Coal Swarm
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Coal_Issues http://coalswarm.org

Wikipedia
[|Coal]

Quotes
No one knew there was coal in the United States until 1790. A hunter who was wandering near Pennsylvania's Broad Mountain stumbled upon it accidentally when his campfire lit up an outcropping of pure anthracite. - Rob B

Buzzword Bingo
carbon - carbon capture and sequestration - coal face - coal seam gas (CSG) - energy - stranded asset

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