Australian Broadcasting Corporation: MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: New data shows brown coal use in electricity production has surged to its highest level in three years.
High emission brown coal now constitutes up to a quarter of the coal used to generate electricity in Australia's largest energy market - the most since 2012.
The abolishment of the carbon tax is thought to be the driving the increase.
Environmental groups say it casts serious doubt on the Government's claim that it can cut carbon emissions by 5 per cent by 2020.
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