Trump’s Coal Renaissance Comes at Cost for Taxpayers
Also: the collapse of a crucial clean-cooking initiative in Africa.
The Trump administration is bringing back coal even as usage of the dirtiest fossil fuel has dwindled for decades in the US. Our reporters traveled to Lake Michigan to examine the cost — to public health, the economy and the environment — of America’s coal renaissance.
Meanwhile, in Africa, efforts to reduce pollution from dirty cooking face a reckoning after the collapse of a company insured by the World Bank and backed by South Africa’s Rand Merchant Bank.