coal smoke, arguing that before 1890 Londoners burned excessive amounts of soft coal, while in the years following, a … series of legal, demographic, and technological changes mitigated the production of coal smoke. This paper asks two questions … changes in the production of coal smoke, or were they the result of some broader meteorological phenomenon. The evidence we …

In recent years, the share of U.S electricity generated by coal has fallen from nearly 50% to 33%. The costs of this … transition are spatially concentrated, and mining states have already lost income due to the reduced demand for coal. Coal states … states and counties with substantial mining activity are more likely to be coal fired and to purchase more within political …

approach to data from British cities for 1851-1911. I show that local industrial coal use substantially reduced long-run city … employment growth over this period. Moreover, a counterfactual analysis suggests that plausible improvements in coal use …

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in …

) environmental regulations. We compare the impacts of these regulations with the impact of changes in coal prices on establishment …-level pollution abatement, coal consumption, and productivity growth. We find that higher coal prices reduced coal use within … establishments, with price elasticities similar to those found in the US. In addition, higher coal prices are associated with lower …

this relationship in 1900. Growing industrial coal use from 1851-1900 reduced life expectancy by at least 0.57 years. A …

. Our focus is on quantifying short-term coal-to-gas switching decisions by different types of electric power plants in …

This paper evaluates changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and gas-fired power plants in the United States … plants substantially reduce the price paid for coal (but not gas), and tend to employ less capital-intensive sulfur abatement … more productive coal mines. I show how these results lend support to theories of asymmetric information, capital bias, and …