Efforts to save coal industry could end up destroying it - Senators' opposition to pollution reduction is misguided

Two years ago, I discussed how "Like Detroit, the coal industry chooses (assisted) suicide."  CAP's Daniel J. Weiss updates the analysis in this cross-post.

Senators from coal states who are trying to protect big coal companies from the impact of global warming pollution reductions may only hasten the decline of big coal.

Their efforts include opposition to clean energy and global warming legislation and blocking EPA from setting pollution limits on the largest emitters. Meanwhile, coal's ...

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Published on September 17, 2010 11:06
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