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US coal declines, bucks global trend
2015-01-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Technological progress has been brutal to the yellow pages and compact discs. Coal may be headed the same way in the U.S., partly because of the market and partly because of national climate change policy. Coal-fired power plants are the nation's largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions and driver of climate change, and an old technology slowly being replaced by newer, cleaner sources of energy. With solar, wind and natural gas gaining ground on the electric grid, change is in the air....
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Category:Electronics and Electrical