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The Saudi Arabia of Coal No More, the US Sees Beginnings of Peak “Cheap” Coal

June 9, 2009

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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carbonregulation, carbonrisk, cleanenergy, coalfiredpowerplants, coalprices, liquidcoal, markettransformation, peakcoal

The coal lobby can't catch a break these days. First utilities reduce coal demand in favor of increasing purchases of cheap natural gas, then the EPA  proposes its endangerment finding on carbon dioxide pollution, then mountaintop removal gets called into account...continued