Lights Out for British Coal

The last deep coal mine in England will close in December. The end of an era and I feel very conflicted. On the one hand I come from a British coal mining area and my great grandfather was a coal miner. On the other, pollution from burning coal is responsible for about 30% of global warming. It puts our communities and wild places at risk from dirty air (from mercury, arsenic and other toxic pollutants), acid rain, and a variety of health problems such as asthma and other respiratory diseases.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/world/europe/lights-out-in-britain-for-the-coal-industry.html?src=mv