Coal Makes a Comeback as the World Thirsts for Energy

An energy-starved world is popping to coal as natural-gas and oil shortages exacerbated by Russia’s war towards Ukraine lead international locations again to the dirtiest fossil gasoline.

From the U.S. to Europe to China, lots of the world’s largest economies are rising short-term coal purchases to make sure enough provides of electrical energy, regardless of prior pledges by many international locations to cut back their coal consumption to fight local weather change.