Polish govt, unions initial plan to phase out coal by 2049
Associated PressWARSAW, Poland — The government of Poland, a country heavily reliant on coal, initialed an agreement with the coal mining industry Wednesday to phase out coal production by 2049. Many analysts say that continuing to produce coal until 2049 is far too long given the high environmental cost of burning coal and with economic momentum moving toward renewable energy sources. “It will be impossible to keep hard coal mining for so long,” said Marta Anczewska, an energy policy officer with environmental organization WWF in Warsaw. “The agreement is generous for miners and the coal intensive region of Silesia, expensive for the state budget, and sluggish in terms of climate policy ambitions,” said Jan Frankowski, an analyst at the Institute for Structural Research, an independent research foundation in Warsaw.
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