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Should A Coal-Fired Power Plant Be Replaced Or Retrofitted?

August 12, 2007 – 2:17 pm

TreeHugger
“Cap and Trade” sounds so mushy. How would the average US voter have any idea at all whether he/she should vote for a Congressional or Presidential candidate who espouses C&T? You just want the nearest coal fired power plants to clean up enough to make life pleasant, fish not mercury contaminated, trees [...]

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Province Of Ontario Canada Plans To Close All Coal-Fired Plants

August 11, 2007 – 3:12 am

TreeHugger
“The province of Ontario, Canada’s biggest energy user, aims to close its last coal-fired power plant in 2014 and become the only jurisdiction in North America to completely phase out coal, a strategy that some critics deride as reckless and others say is overly timid. The coal plan is the major plank in the climate [...]

By zephyr1 | Also posted in CO2, climate change, coal, global warming | Comments (0)