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Big News: Coal Electricity Drops Big Time
10:02 pm in Business & Politics, coal, News, oil by TreeHugger
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It's been a bad stretch recently for dirty coal, the country's largest source of global warming emissions. First, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stepped up and contributed big time to the Sierra Club's fierce Beyond Coal campaign. And now news comes that coal's share of U.S. electricity production during the first quarter of this 2011 added up to i...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Trainloads of coal from Powder River Basin travel to Washington's coast for export. Photo by Paul K. Anderson.
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Interest groups, the Business Roundtable chief among them, are attempting to capitalize on an anti-regulatory sentiment popular amongst American conservatives by lobbying hard against incoming Clean Air rules that would limit smog output from industry. They argue that asking major polluters to emit less harmful pollution would hurt the economy. Perhaps they should bear in mind that the smog emitted by these chemical plants, oil refiners, coal plants and so forth, kill thousands of people every year -- and that they're lobbying for that practice to continue.
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