By Tom Ozimek John Kerry, special presidential envoy on climate matters, announced Saturday that the United States has “proudly” committed to not to build any new coal plants and to get rid of existing ones entirely. “To meet our goal of 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035, we need to phase out unabated coal,” […]
Tag: Fossil Fuels
A fossil fuel is a hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the earth’s crust from the remains of dead plants and animals that is extracted and burned as a fuel. The main fossil fuels are coal, crude oil and natural gas.