The UK is reaching a major milestone in its transition to clean energy, one that Coal Action Network has campaigned for since its inception in 2008 — the complete phase-out of coal power generation. From October 2024, Ratcliffe power station — the last remaining coal-fired power station in the country — will be permanently shuttered... Read more...

Campaigners celebrate as the decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria is quashed.

Today, 13th October, South Lakes Action on Climate Change and Friends of the Earth won their case, against the Conservative Government's 2022 decision, to allow a new coal mine... Read more...

A mining company is proprosing to extract the coal from some of the colossal Council-owned coal tips in Bedwas. The company promises that it would use some of the sales of the coal to restore those coal tips later. But South Wales is littered with reasons not to trust restoration promises - and we need to be burying coal, not unearthing it. Read more...

Smoke filled the sky across the industrial parts of the UK, as coal powered the industrial revolution. First coal brought prosperity and progress, but over decades the smoke stacks have been identified as a major cause of the climate crisis...Read more...