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How the UK Won its War on Coal


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Coal was the engine of the Industrial Revolution and employed nearly 1.2 million people in Britain at its height. But the UK has gone more than 1,000 hours without using coal to generate electricity this year - the longest streak since Thomas Edison opened the country's first coal power station in 1882. How did they do it? Our guest is Carolyn Beeler who covered this story for PRI's The World.

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