British energy secretary says coal-fired power will come to an end by the middle of the next decade. UPI/Stephen Shaver LONDON, Nov. 18 (UPI) — Joining other major world economies, the British government announced plans to phase coal out of its energy portfolio within the next decade. “It cannot be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the U.K .to be relying on polluting, carbon intensive 50-year-old coal-fired power stations,” British Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd said in a statement. Rudd said the government would start restricting the reliance on coal-fired power by 2023 and close all coal-fired power stations by 2025. A federal plan in the United States calls for a 32 percent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, by 2030. State governments under the plan are called on to outline their own agendas. New York’s government was praised for setting a gold […]