For Mexico’s president, the future isn’t renewable energy — it’s coal
Mexico once embraced renewable energies. Now it’s doubling down on dirty fossil fuels such as coal, seen here being extracted from the Santa Barbara mine near the town of San José del Aura.
SABINAS, Mexico —
Juan Manuel Briones was 14 when he started working in the coal mines in this remote stretch of northern Mexico.
He toiled underground for nearly two decades, only to be laid off a few years ago as Mexico began embracing renewable energy and weaning itself off fossil fuels.
Briones worried the future had left him behind.