Is this the end for ‘king coal’ in Britain?

        August 9, 2020 The Guardian | UK | fossil fuels: coal

Only 8 million tonnes of coal was burnt last year in the UK, a tenfold reduction in 5 years, and the same as when James Watt patented his steam engine in 1769. Over 200 million tonnes was consumed in the 1950s, leading the world in power, pollution, and disease – asthma, cancer, heart ailments, bronchitis, pneumonia, respiratory illnesses.