Dutch parliament votes to shut down all of the country's coal plants

Inhabitat
Sep 26, 2016, 10:16 am122 pts
The Dutch parliament voted Thursday night to shutter the nation’s coal industry in order to achieve a 55-percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. The vote, which is not yet binding, would require shutting down the five coal power plants currently operating in the Netherlands, three of which just came…

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