First UK coal mine in decades approved despite climate concerns - Carbon Brief

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The Guardian says in a frontpage story that the project will produce nearly 3m tonnes of coal and "an estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year".
46% : But the two companies that still make steel using coal in the UK - British Steel and Tata - say they plan to move to lower carbon production methods.
31% : The newswire quotes Prof Paul Ekins saying: "Approving it also trashes the UK's reputation as a global leader on climate action and opens it up to well justified charges of hypocrisy - telling other countries to ditch coal while not doing so itself."

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