dave severin: give me a "c." all: c. dave: give me an "o." all: o. eric campbell: from europe to the us, coal is under fire. dave: what's it spell? all: coal! eric: environmentalists are circling. mines and power plants are closing. even big corporations say it's not worth the trouble. josé rodriguez: we used to make money with coal, but this is not happening anymore. eric: are these the dying days for coal? and what's going to happen to mining communities? we're going to the coalface to find out. eric: almost every week there's a new international call to ban investment or even phase out the industry completely. and that's going to ramp up at the un climate conference in glasgow, that's being billed as the last chance to save the planet. but where does all that leave the miners, their families, their towns that rely on coal for their livelihood and purpose? well, we're going to explore two communities on different sides of the world that are at that crossroads and they're taking very different paths. in the us, we visit the town of west frankfort, w

dave severin: give me a "c." all: c. dave: give me an "o." all: o.ric campbell: from europe to the us, coal is under fire. dave: what's it spell? all: coal! eric: environmentalists are circling. mines and power plants are closing. even big corporations say it's not worth the trouble. josé rodriguez: we used to make money with coal, but this is not happening anymore. eric: are these the dying days for coal? and what's going to happen to mining communities? we're going to the coalface to find out.

dave severin: give me a "c." all: c. dave: give me an "o." all: o. from europe to the us, coal is under fire. dave: what's it spell? all: coal! eric: environmentalists are circling. mines and power plants are closing. even big corporations say it's not worth the trouble. josé rodriguez: we used to make money with coal, but this is not happening anymore. eric: are these the dying days for coal? and what's going to happen to mining communities? we're going to the coalface to find out. eric: almost every week there's a new international call