Coal-Fired Carbon Emissions Fall As Transition To Cleaner Energy Accelerates

Forbes: It's been a long hot summer of cataclysmic environmental events – drought, derecho, half of India in the dark – but here's some good news: Thanks to cheap natural gas and a boom in renewable energy, the U.S. is accelerating a shift away from coal-fired power plants, resulting in falling emissions of carbon dioxide and other harmful pollutants, according to a report released Tuesday. The annual study of the emissions of the U.S.'s 100 biggest power producers – which generate 86% of the nation's...

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