How The U.S. Could Benefit From Australia’s Trade Spat With China

Coal’s days are numbered. The world’s dirtiest fossil fuel has long since fallen out of favor with climate-conscious policymakers, investors, and constituents alike, and even those who are less environmentally motivated have little reason to remain loyal to the emissions-heavy fuel source now that it has been more expensive than wind and solar in most of the world for years now.

  But even though coal is definitively in terminal decline, its denouement has been anything but linear. While countries have been making increasingly ambitious…