The UK is about to stop producing any electricity from burning coal - ending its 142-year reliance on the fossil fuel.
The country’s last coal power station, at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, finishes operations on Monday after running since 1967.
This marks a major milestone in the country’s ambitions to reduce its contribution to climate change. Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel producing the most greenhouse gases when burnt.
Quite a change from a country that once had coal-based smog so bad that it was a literal disaster with massive health consequences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
My dad lived through it. He said you would put a handkerchief over your mouth when you went outside and when you got to where you were going, it would be black.