In the previous blog post, we discussed how President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are working to mandate reduced coal use in the United States. It turns out that the United States is nearly alone in the world in reducing coal use—the leaders of countries around the world are trying to provide their citizens with more reliable, affordable energy, even as President Obama is trying to do the opposite here. Coal use grew 3 percent in 2013 and was the world’s fastest growing fossil fuel, according to BP in its annual Statistical Review of World Energy. BP just released its Statistical Review of World Energy providing production and consumption data for 2013.(i)
