Data driven: U.S. coal production fell 25% last year

In three of the top five coal-producing states, production declined about 30%.

(George Barker is a journalism/CS major at Northeastern University. He’s worked for the Harvard Business Review and as campus and sports editor for The Huntington News.)

BOSTON (Callaway Climate Insights) — Coal production within the U.S. plummeted last year, with 2020’s U.S. production of 534,302,000 short tons representing a 24.4% decline from 2019 and…