Four states that say burning coal will hurt their residents as it makes climate change worse are trying to stop the Trump administration from selling vast reserves of the fuel that are beneath public lands.
Declines in coal power plant construction in China, India and the U.S. are projected to push the heavily-polluting fuel over the edge— but not fast enough to meet international climate change goals, environmental groups said on Wednesday, March 21, 2018.
With President Donald Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, China and California signed an agreement on Tues. June 6, 2017, to work together on reducing emissions.
