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UK ends electricity production from coal

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In 1882, the first coal-based electricity power plant was opened in the UK. Now the UK has become the first major economy to no longer burn coal for the production of electricity, in an important step on the way to combat climate change by becoming CO2-neutral.

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News seen at: BBC - News