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World’s use of coal-fired electricity on track for biggest drop on record

By Jillian Ambrose | Climate Change

Bloomberg donates $500 million to help end coal

By Nick Visser | Analysis, Climate Change

For the first time since 1882, Britain goes a week without coal

By Jasper Jolly | Analysis, Climate Change

NYC smog, businessman with mask

Texas coal-plant owner: “Coal is on its way out”

By Oliver Milman | Climate Change

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New EPA chief: A coal baron’s dream

By Rebecca Leber | Analysis, Climate Change

The world's first AP1000 reactor, at the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China.

The future of nuclear energy depends on China

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Why India’s electricity is likely to remain in short supply: The economics of nuclear power

By M.V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy

Splitting rock vs. splitting atoms: What shale gas means for nuclear power

By Michael Levi | Uncategorized

Stanford Ovshinsky: Pursuing solar electricity at a cost equal to or lower than that of coal electricity

By | Interviews