EditorialFILE PHOTO: Czech electricity producer CEZ's logo is seen next to an electricity pylon in front of the Ledvice coal-fired power plant near the village of Ledvice
EditorialSteam escapes from the smokestack at the coal-fired power plant, which shut down in 2020, in Barker, N.Y., March 5, 2020. (Libby March/The New York Times)
EditorialA control room of a coal-fired power plant owned by the Adani Group, until recently India’s largest conglomerate, which shed more than $100 billion in days in January, in Mundra, India, Oct. 27, 2022. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialThe coal-fired grill at the Kabab al Sha’ab restaurant turns out skewers of meat all day, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Oct. 12, 2022. (Tzachi Ostrovsky/The New York Times)
EditorialPlant Bowen, a coal-fired Georgia Power plant that drew a rebuke from a Google representative at a renewable energy conference, in Euharlee, Ga., Oct. 19, 2022. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)
EditorialPlant Bowen, a coal-fired Georgia Power plant that drew a rebuke from a Google representative at a renewable energy conference, in Euharlee, Ga., Oct. 19, 2022. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)
EditorialMeena Devi cooks on a wood-fired stove outside her family?s home in New Delhi, which has some of the world?s worst air pollution, on Dec. 6, 2022. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialMeena Devi cooks on a wood-fired stove outside her family?s home in New Delhi, which has some of the world?s worst air pollution, on Dec. 6, 2022. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Kendal Power Station, a coal-fired station supplied by local mines, near the Phola township in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, March 23, 2022. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialWindmills at a power station at the Eeemshaven port in the Netherlands, which has lifted limits on coal-fired power plants, Sept. 21, 2022. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien/The New York Times)
EditorialWindmills at a power station at the Eeemshaven port in the Netherlands, which has lifted limits on coal-fired power plants, Sept. 21, 2022. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien/The New York Times)