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Social costs of electricity from coal make it uneconomical, researchers assert

2013-09-19 14:36:38| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: New research from a national environmental group finds that the cost of producing electricity from renewable resources like wind and solar is lower than that of conventional coal-fired generation when factoring for the adverse costs of climate change and human health impacts. That conclusion, derived from analysis on the "social cost of carbon," is at the heart of a study published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences by Laurie Johnson, chief economist of the Natural Resources...

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