“Moneypoint, Ireland’s last operating coal plant, has shut down for good.”
Fifteen European countries, no more coal generation. Twenty years ago this was the position of Greenpeace activists chained to a bulldozer. Now it is the position of the energy ministry. The economics ran the policy, not the other way around. Coal lost on cost first and was outlawed second. The American coal industry got the opposite treatment, which is why it is not dead yet.