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Just transition

Win by time’: How Poland is preparing for the death of coal

In the country’s coal region — one of the EU’s biggest — advocates and union leaders are working to ensure the energy transition doesn’t leave miners behind.

By Alexander C. Kaufman  . 

A pile of thermal coal extracted from coal mines in Silesia with a coal plant and greenery in the distance
A pile of thermal coal extracted from coal mines in Silesia. The province is the EU's largest coal-mining region. (Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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