UK government greenlights first new coal mine in three decades | CNN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Its opponents argue these jobs may not be secure, given the huge momentum in Europe to phase out coal.
38% : CNN --The UK has greenlit a controversial plan to open the country's first new coal mine in three decades, a little more than a year after the nation tried to convince the world to ditch coal at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
37% : "It will add to global CO2 emissions, as the new supply will not replace other coal but divert it elsewhere, and it will become stranded in the 2030s as the steel industry globally moves away from coal."
36% :Ekins also said that the mine's approval "trashes the UK's reputation as a global leader on climate action and opens it up to well justified charges of hypocrisy - telling other countries to ditch coal while not doing so itself."

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