Climate Changed
The U.K. Just Went 55 Hours Without Using Coal for the First Time in History
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Coal, which fueled the world’s biggest economies for more than a century, is increasingly losing out to renewables.
The latest example of how one of the dirtiest fossil fuels is being squeezed out of the market came this week in Britain, which went for a record 55 hours without its any of its power plants producing electricity by burning coal.