The World Bank should support poor countries that need coal-powered energy in spite of its contribution to climate change, its president has said.

BBC: Jim Yong Kim

They were still a new denomination then, but had spread rapidly in the last fifty years around a nation of exploited factory workers, coal miners, and rural and inner-city poor.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Frogtown'

Duke operates in the resource-poor Carolinas and built some of the world's biggest coal plants in the 1960s and 1970s, when people were more concerned about cheap, secure energy supplies than co2 levels.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In the beautiful, but poor, Asturias region in north-western Spain, the subsidy underwrites production of coal at seven times the world price.

ECONOMIST: Coal in Europe