US Coal Emissions Could Drop 21 Percent While Helping American Industry

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 11:00 in Earth & Climate

American CO2 emissions have plummeted thanks to natural gas and energy emissions from coal have not been this low since the early 1980s, but a decades long war against energy science meant nuclear power - a truly viable emissions-free source - was scuttled and that meant more coal plants starting in the early 1990s, which meant more CO2. read more

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