Big Coal Doomed: Not By Climate Rules But Fracking & Finance

Power station - Image by Flickr user MacJewell, used under Creative Commons license

Coal is the worst fossil fuel, that much is clear. Its carbon footprint per kilowatt-hour of electricity when it’s burned by electric utilities to make electricity is far, far higher than that of natural gas. And that’s even before the slowly improving economics of renewable sources come into play, from home solar photovoltaic panels to huge… …read more