Cutting coal only hurts the US and won’t stop climate change

by Liberty Vittert, Opinion Contributor – 04/20/25 12:00 PM ET

To coal or not to coal?- Click here to read the full article as published by The Hill

Given the loud shrieks of climate change zealots, one would think that the world is going to end in a few years if we don’t give up coal entirely and immediately. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) famously claimed in 2019 that the world was going to end if we didn’t do something drastic within 12 years. (Speaking of which, I would be very interested to see whether she is saving for retirement, given her public claims that the world is likely to end before she reaches it.)