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Open access notables What does intellectual bankruptcy often look like? Trying to switch topics by going ad hominem, that's what. When somebody stops thinking and begins flinging irrelevant insults, threats and accusations at a person, we're seeing a crisply humiliating admission: 'I have nothing.' Going broke isn't free. In the case of climate science it's climate scientists who bear costs. Global Witness quantifies this, finding that some 50% of climate scientists have found themselves on the receiving end of vitriol hurled by (surrendering, let's remember) abusers in var...

Half the country’s coal-fired electricity generation expected to shut down by 2026

The structural decline of the U.S. coal industry is accelerating, with big implications for the Mountain West.

The trend is expected to hit thermal coal-producing regions, such as Wyoming's Powder River Basin, even quicker than previously thought.

One main driver of coal's decline is the legal obligation that utilities and states are under to provide energy at the lowest possible rate to consumers.