Historic Day in Britain: First Coal-Free Day Since 1882

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By Oil Change InternationalApr 24, 2017, 9:19 am281 pts
By Andy Rowell April 21, 2017, will go down as a significant day in the dying days of the fossil fuel era. For the first time since the renewable revolution in 1882, Britain went a full day without using dirty coal to generate electricity. The UK's energy provider, the National Grid, called it a "watershed"…

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