Poland’s New Generation Pushes Slowly Toward Renewable Energy

Jaclyn Diaz spent two weeks this summer reporting on the ground in Poland as part of an international reporting fellowship, which allowed her to examine how the global pressure to transition from fossil fuels would impact the country’s workforce and culture. This is the second of two stories.

Zbigniew Jóźwiakowski’s private museum in the basement of his home in Wałbrzych, Poland, spans several rooms, leaving no wall uncovered.

Shelves are heavy with tools, some more than 200 years old, used by workers underground—lamps, radios, axes. Old respirators called upon in the most dire of circumstances, when a miner needed to ...