Ecologist: If the coal industry's PR dream is for a stream of exuberant articles selling the story line that coal is clean, cheap and desirable, then 2013 delivered the opposite. 2014 will be even worse.
If there is one issue which encapsulates Big Coal's fall it is the deadly smog which blanketed Chinese cities in January and then again in October and December.
During 2013 the coal industry became mired in debates over air and water pollution, escalating health costs, corruption scandals, damage to farmlands,...