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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/US-Canada-coal.png427480From the recently released BP Statistical Review of World Energy comes this news: in 2011, coal consumption fell about 5 percent in the US, and by about 9 percent in Canada. For 2011 as a whole, coal consumption had fallen back to about where it was in 1993. This is good news for the climate, but can't be heartening to the coal industry. In North America, coal is mostly used to generate electricity---but with natural gas at rock-bottom prices, efficient gas burners are beating out older, dirtier coal-fired generators in the electricity generation markets.