Habitat-offsetting makes as much sense as flattening Liverpool & building new houses in Manchester. Habitats are as unique as the lives in them. We expose UK opencast coal mine operators trying to offset ancient woodland with trash-strewn field of dead saplings👉 www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/09/16/g...

We work tirelessly for an end to the UK's coal mining & coal use - that's right, the UK still mines⛏️ & burns🔥coal EVERY DAY. Get our 1 email/month update & 1 min e-action to finally end the UK's coal-addiction. Subscribe: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...

The UK has smashed rapidly weaning the UK power supply off coal (& not a single light went out as a result!). But coal is also used in some industries in the UK, & that's where we now need the same dedication to sourcing alternative and sustainable alternatives: www.coalaction.org.uk/coal-industry/

Most of our info on coal in the UK is campaign updates & short, accessible website posts...but sometimes we write something a little longer, often based on our own original research. Check out our Government-cited resources: www.coalaction.org.uk/publications/

As UK moves beyond coal, some mining companies haven't got the memo & are still trying to expand their coal mining operations 😓. Glan Lash opencast coal mine in Carmarthenshire have applied to kill off ancient woodland🌳to scrape away the coal beneath it ❌ Read more: www.coalaction.org.uk/glan-lash

What's that? The UK's *still* mining coal?!👀Aberpergwm coal mine in South Wales & Ayle colliery in Northumberland are 2 deep coal mines & produced 107,000 tonnes of coal last year 😬 Less than the UK produced before but its enough to fill over 200 houses with it www.coalaction.org.uk/coal-mine-ca...

How much coal did the UK import last year? How much coal did people burn to heat their homes? Is it getting more or less? Get answers to these questions and many more on all things coal here: www.coalaction.org.uk/coal-facts-a...

Coal Action *Network* is, well, a network. We couldn't do what we do without all the wonderful people and groups we work so closely with. Find out who's making waves on the UK's fossil fuel scene: www.coalaction.org.uk/the-network/

Find out more about the policy buttons we're pushing to make sure when the UK finally closes the door on coal, we lock it shut www.coalaction.org.uk/coal-policy-... Let's open the door to a kinder, greener future for all 💚

Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine in South Wales risks being left as a dangerous scar on our countryside. Find out the lasting impacts on local residents from other opencast coal mines effectively abandoned by mining companies when it came to clean up the mess: www.coalaction.org.uk/2024/11/07/t...

Got 2 minutes to stop a £90 million nature restoration fund being turned into windfall private profits? 👀 Use our quick template to message the consultants who are making this possible & share with your mates: actionnetwork.org/letters/writ... Will the consultants cut ties?🤞

We've paid some very clever Barristers 🤓 to work out how to close a massive loophole in the UK Government's coal license ban⚠️ Now it's up to DESNZ to implement it... www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/08/20/n... Share to DESNZ's page so they can't ignore this 🙏

Director of Ffos-y-fran ex-coal mine, David Lewis, now refuses to pay to clean up its mess. What'll happen to the £91.2 MILLION restoration fund?💸We're asking consultants not to aid the company evading MILLIONS in clean up. Read our exposé: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/18/t... @TippingPointorg

Director of Ffos-y-fran ex-coal mine, David Lewis, now refuses to pay to clean up its mess. What'll happen to the £91.2 MILLION restoration fund?💸No surprise since he was cautioned with violent assault of a 75 yr old!😬Read our exposé: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/18/t... @BladeoftheS

Director of Ffos-y-fran ex-coal mine, David Lewis, now refuses to pay to clean up its mess. What'll happen to the £91.2 MILLION restoration fund?💸No surprise since he is being probed for burying toxic waste at the site! ☢️ Read our exposé: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/18/t... @BladeoftheS

Director of Ffos-y-fran ex-coal mine, David Lewis, now refuses to pay to clean up its mess. What'll happen to the £91.2 MILLION restoration fund? 💸No surprise as he was gambling with lives driving 99mph! Read our exposé: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/18/t... @BladeoftheS @FoE_Cymru @ExtinctionR

Director of Ffos-y-fran ex-coal mine, David Lewis, now refuses to pay to clean up its mess. What'll happen to the £91.2 MILLION restoration fund? 💸No surprise since he was prev. convicted of 88k fraud! Read our exposé: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/18/t... @BladeoftheS @FoE_Cymru @ExtinctionR

The global steel industry emits 9% of the annual CO2. To keep up with global decarbonisation trends, Scunthorpe steelworks needs to rapidly decarbonise as well - & the UK Govt must use its part-ownership to invest and leverage that change. More: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/04/25/c...

UK stats just in! Demand for coal in 2024 was 2.1 million tonnes, a 52% drop from 2023 📉 This decline is largely due to a 55% fall in coal-fired generation, owing to the closure of UK's last coal power station at Ratcliffe. Our stats dashboard: www.coalaction.org.uk/coal-facts-a...

Globally, the cement industry uses 4% of coal production. UK cement has begun replacing coal with waste & post-consumer biomass (43% of the fuel used in 2020). If all coal was replaced with alternatives, UK would reduce CO2 by >2million tonnes per year. www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/04/25/c...

Barclays funneled $2bn into US coal utilities in 2024... and has just pulled out of the UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance, along with HSBC. If you're still banking with either of these climate criminals, it's time to switch. www.theguardian.com/business/202...?

Mining coal releases methane and CO2 even if it's not burned. Coal quantities used by the UK water filtration industry is not made public. But it needn't use any: alternatives incl. charcoal (wood), nutshells, glass, garnet, magnetite etc. More: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/04/25/c...

UK brickworks primarily use coal to colour the bricks. UK brickworks consume approximately 70,000 tonnes per year of these additives, which includes coal. This drives up emissions UK emissions and pollutes our air. The industry must use alternatives: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/04/25/c...

Gasification and chemicals: coal is used in gasification plants to produce chemicals such as methanol, ammonia, and polyvinyl chloride. LNG gas can be used instead of gas. The UK uses negligible coal for this, relying on waste/biomass instead. Read more: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/04/25/c...

Coal mining casts a long shadow on the communities that hosted it - housing development just rejected in Carmarthenshire over concerns that old coal mine leaking gas 💨 👀 Find out more about our mine restoration campaigning: www.coalaction.org.uk/coal-mine-re...

Did you know coal isn't only used for power? 👀 Read how coal is still used in UK industry - & its alternatives. UK industry must rapidly decarbonise if we're to have cleaner air here: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/04/25/c...

Explore Ffos-y-fran coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. A promise of restoration unfulfilled, a community impacted. #MerthyrTydfil #360Photo #Wales #StopCoal www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/02/3...

Passionate about climate justice? Stand with those challenging coal industry myths for a livable future. Read more & share ♻️ 🔗 www.coalaction.org.uk/about-us/myt... | #ActOnClimate #ShareTheTruth

New myth-busters 🐉 from us to battle back the growing fake news on coal in the UK. READ. THINK. SHARE. REPEAT 🤔 www.coalaction.org.uk/about-us/myt...

In a Climate, Environment & Infrastructure hearing, claims defied High Court judgements. We’ve analysed what was said, why it's wrong, and why that matters. 🔗 www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/03/f... | #SeneddScrutiny #ClimateEvidence

Extracting UK coal: sounds green? Certain Senedd Members think so too. Think again. Our breakdown shows it would **increase** global coal demand. 🔗 www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/03/f... | #EnergyPolicy #ClimateAction

Local groups aren’t backing down — they’re pushing back on coal tip mining myths. Learn why 👀 🔗 www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/03/f... #CommunityPower #CoalAction

⚠️ ‘Rescuing’ clean‑burn coal? The Senedd claims about coal tips were misleading. We set the evidence-backed record straight: 🔗 coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/03/f... | #FakeNews #ClimateCrisis @leohickman.carbonbrief.org

Restoration of the UK's biggest opencast coal mine is at risk as mining company tries to wriggle out of the contract. It would leave behind a dangerous ☠️ landscape on the the doorsteps of the 58,000 living in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. Explore our 360 gallery: www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/07/02/3...

Help out our friends in Denbigh, northern Wales, stop a quarry tear through more of the local countryside in an application to expand its opencast operations with dust and noise plaguing nearby residents: www.gofundme.com/f/save-our-g...

Find out about Welsh nature & ancient forest that hangs in the balance as Camarthenshire County Council considers an application to extend the Glan Lash opencast coal mine. www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/04/18/t...

Check out our gallery of the lush ancient woodland at risk by the application to extend an opencast coal mine in South Wales. It's not too late to object (link on page below) ⤵️ www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/04/18/t... @goodlawproject.bsky.social @foecymrucydd.bsky.social @climatejusticeuk.bsky.social

Community representatives from Chile, Peru and Zambia are speaking in London on 01 May about resisting Anglo American mining giant. Sign up to the event now: actionnetwork.org/events/from-...

Yesterday we gave Merthyr Council over 200 local objections to the massively downgraded Ffos y Fran 'restoration' proposal. People we spoke to in Merthyr don't want to be left with a massive, dangerous hole full of water. Please listen: restore this site, as promised. @coalactionuk.bsky.social

A £91.2m restoration fund hangs by a thread as mining company seeks to claim it as a windfall profit instead 💸. Local community promised restoration after 16yrs opencast coal mining - help them get it by donating to the legal fight ✊ www.gofundme.com/f/stop-ps912...

Back up local residents to demand the Council rejects notorious mining company Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd’s attempt to massively downgrade the promised quality of restoration at the Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine. ✊Take our 2min e-action right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/subm...

We pull no punches with this damning investigation into Welsh corporate scandal, cheating local community out of tens of £millions to restore land after 16yrs coal mining ravaged environment💔 Council refuses to act - will @welshgovernment.bsky.social step in? www.coalaction.org.uk/2025/02/06/w...

We're giving oral evidence to @senedd.cymru Climate Change,Energy, and Infrastructure Committee tomorrow on the #DisusedTipsBill with @foecymrucydd.bsky.social. We'll be warning of the risk that this Bill could encourage 're-mining' coal tips of waste coal for profit under the guise of safety ❌

860 people are due to sit in the road, silently holding signs at the Royal Courts of Justice on 30th January to #FreePoliticalPrisoners in the UK 🔥 Share and join them to #DefendOurJuries ✊ actionnetwork.org/forms/januar...

Is your university complicit in genocide, climate breakdown and the abuse of migrants? We’re excited to host this online event, with speakers from Tipping Point, Palestine Youth Movement Britain and Palestine Solidarity Campaign.💥Sign up today! actionnetwork.org/events/is-yo...

2024 was a really big year for coal and for us. Check out the highlights... SPOILER - the UK ended coal in its energy mix! 👀 www.coalaction.org.uk/2024/12/28/m...

While a lot of positive steps are set out in the Plan, the government should steer clear of false solutions – such as biomass and nuclear power. To avoid risking its credibility, #renewables and clean flexibility should be the priority. 4/5 @coalactionuk.bsky.social

Read our new blog post on the recent Cwmtillery coal tip slip, how we got here, & what the emerging Coal Tips Safety Bill must include to stop coal tip remediation becoming sneaky coal tip mining⚒️ www.coalaction.org.uk/2024/11/27/c...

📢UK Govt recently press released that it'll ban licencing new coal mines in the UK! This is a collosal victory that many told us was unrealistic - but time & again we've learned ambition is the only way we get the change we need 📉 1/2

@coalactionuk.bsky.social Look at Wales 👀