Peabody’s Glenn Kellow looks at coal’s big picture

摘要

With Big Green groups cheering every ton of U.S. coal production that stays in the ground – and cheering even louder every time a coal-fired power plant goes on the chopping block – it’s easy for the media to write obituaries about the industry. But if you pay attention, the obituary writers are mostly here at home and in Europe. Coal may not be king in every corner of the globe, but to a few billion people it’s looked at like a prince riding to the rescue.