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Electricity can be produced a number of ways - nuclear, coal burning, hydroelectric, wind, solar, and more. Burning coal is the dirtiest. "The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates 71 percent of America’s CO2 emissions from electricity in 2015 were produced by coal . ."

Coal as a source of power is declining in the U.S., but hundreds of new coal plants are springing up around the world,  most of them in China and India.

With global dependence on coal increasing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has good news. They are going to publish research on May 1  about a new innovation which "could lead to a 50 to 60 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions per unit of electricity produced."

Could it make a difference for American coal miners who've been impacted by the anti-coal campaign? "The “coal country” of Appalachia [in America] has been economically devastated and has very few job options for unemployed workers."