World abandoning coal-fired electricity
|Tags: Asia & India, Coal-fired Power, Global Coal is the dirtiest of fossil fuels—it produces per kilogram the least amount of energy and the greatest amount of pollution—and the world is quickly abandoning it. According to findings published by the NGOs Greenpeace and CoalSwarm, countries are using coal less...
Read more“It’s purely economic. The plant guys tried everything they could to keep it open, but it was a money loser. In a competitive market, you’ve got to take these steps. This is a coal plant operating in a market that’s flooded with cheap natural gas.”
– Allan Koenig, a spokesman for parent company of Luminant, owner of one of Texas’ largest coal plants that is being shut down
Economics, not regs., are waging a war on coal
|Tags: Clean Power Plan, Coal-fired Power, North America As EPA Chief Scott Pruitt prepares to roll back the Clean Power Plan, a new analysis challenges his assumptions about “winners and losers.” The roll back makes good on Trump’s campaign promise to do away with restrictions on the coal industry. But even a drastic...