A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry, like the oil industry, was long aware of the threat of climate change.
Élan Young, 11/22/2019 HuffPost
“Exxon knew.” Thanks to the work of activists and journalists, those two words have rocked the politics of climate change in recent years, as investigations revealed the extent to which giants like Exxon Mobil and Shell were aware of the danger of rising greenhouse gas emissions even as they undermined the work of scientists.
But the coal industry knew, too — as early as 1966, a newly unearthed journal shows.
