Electric cars got much cleaner in 2019, as coal plants were retired at a record pace

Coal power plant in ChinaOne campaign pledge the Trump Administration hasn’t been able to keep, as of yet, is the revival of the U.S. coal industry. U.S. coal power plants shut down at their second-fastest rate ever in 2019, according to new data from Thomson Reuters and the federal government, as reported by Reuters Monday. During 2019, 15.1 gigawatts of coal-fired...