As both China and the United States move into new administrations, each leader is given an opportunity to move the coal agenda forward. Fuqiang Yang of the China Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Daniel Guttman of Johns Hopkins University, and Jennifer Turner of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars consider what legacies these administrations will leave and the role of civil society, the private sector, and others in the public sector will have on coal’s future.