Global Coal Use Fell in 2020, Driven by Declines in U.S. and Elsewhere

SUGAR LAND--July 13, 2021--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Worldwide coal use fell 4.2% in 2020, the fourth decline in six years, and coal use at yearend 2020 was up only fractionally over consumption a decade earlier, according to BP's Statistical Review of World Energy, released July 8.