The US's biggest source of power for everything from your light bulbs to television has finally been unseated, and it may be a sign of things to come.
As suggested by numerous industry signals, coal as a source of energy may be slowly dying.
According to the Energy Information Agency, the US government's energy-tracking department, 2016 will be the first year coal is not the dominant source of power generation for the US since tracking began in 1950.
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