> How about instead trying to make coal compete on level ground: tax its carbon emissions, tax its particulate emissions, require real management for whatever w

> How about instead trying to make coal compete on level ground: tax its carbon emissions, tax its particulate emissions, require real management for whatever waste it produces, and see if any investors or inventors want to keep it alive. They've been trying to do this at the international, national and state level for decades now. The Kyoto protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol) was signed in 1997. Unfortunately right wing parties in most of the anglosphere think market driven solutions are left wing conspiracy theories.