In the report, Facebook earned poor marks for coal intensity (53.2 percent, the second highest of the 10 companies rated), a D for transparency, an F for infrastructure siting, and a D for mitigation strategy.

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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

For a start, there is so much cheap coal, distributed all over the world, that poor countries are bound to burn it.

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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.

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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.

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He called in at Gee's Bend, a poor black corner of Alabama, and Inez, a tiny Kentucky coal town where Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty (a third of Inez's residents remain below the poverty line).

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While the comedy was shot in California, it made liberal use of props from Scranton and referenced plenty of real-life landmarks, from Cooper's Seafood House and Poor Richard's pub to Lake Wallenpaupack and the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour.

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But coal is polluting and, anyway, India's is of poor quality.

ECONOMIST: The sunny side of India

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