AT THE back of Ernest Moniz’s mind a clock is ticking. Moniz is director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His mental countdown marks the narrowing window of time that remains for the US to address a looming environmental disaster fuelled by the burning of mountains of cheap American coal.
“It’s going to be used,” says Moniz, who co-chaired a report – The Future of Coal – that was released this week. His assertion is the result of three years of economic modelling which predicts that coal consumption in the US will…
