On April 26, 2026, Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy convened a closed-door summit in Bogotá, where over 40 nations and institutions debated a proposal to phase out coal mining by 2040. The country, which export…

The government’s internal memo, obtained by El Espectador, reveals a stark calculation: ending coal by 2040 would erase $35 billion in annual exports but reduce methane emissions by 38 million tons annually. This mirr…

Two years earlier, a more insidious shift unfolded in Washington. In February 2024, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) quietly revised its educational website Energy Kids, a resource for K–12 students. T…

This mirrors the 1996 Kyoto Protocol era, when U.S. states lobbied to classify coal as a “bridge fuel.” The EIA’s revisions align with a broader trend: between 2020 and 2023, 34 U.S. states removed coal emissions data…