California Will Stop Using Coal as a Power Source Next Month

An anonymous reader shared this excerpt from a Los Angeles Times newsletter:

One of the most consequential moments in California’s drive to beat back climate change will take place next month. The state will stop receiving electricity from the Intermountain Power Plant in Central Utah, meaning our reliance on coal as a source of power will essentially be over…

[T]he U.S. got nearly half its electricity from coal-fired plants as recently as 2007. By 2023, that figure had…