The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better?

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By Tristan BaurickFeb 6, 2026, 4:45 am117 pts
Kathleen Watts’ flowers bloom much brighter now that the wind no longer blows black. Pulling weeds in the garden outside her redbrick house, she recalled when coal dust would sometimes drift through her quiet corner of northern England, a rolling patchwork of farms and villages under the shadow of what was…

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