How's the ground breaking, world leading Paris agreement going? Answer: not so well if you look at coal.
If you only focused on the United States, you might think coal's days were numbered. But that's not true globally. Far from it. Coal consumption has actually been accelerating worldwide since the end of the 1990s.
More than 2,400 new coal-fired power stations are under construction or being planned around the world. The new plants will emit 6.5 billion toms of carbon dioxide a year and undermine efforts at the Paris climate conference to limit global warming to 2 C.
