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Burning Coal Is Choking Our Planet and Its People, But Strangely, That’s OK

Posted on May 16, 2017 by

Here’s something that will put a smile on a few faces, i.e., those investors whose meager integrity and broken moral compass enables them to support coal as an energy source. According to Energy Matters: Nearly all publicly traded US coal …

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Dialog on Coal as an Energy Source

Posted on October 3, 2015 by

craigshields Posted in Fossil Fuels

Frequent commenter MarcoPolo makes two interesting points in his recent post: 1) It’s hypocritical for some Americans to smugly claim a moral victory for less U.S. emissions, while exporting emissions-creating industries overseas, while as customers, re-importing the manufactured products of …

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Tagged with: carbon tax, Coal as an Energy Source, economic barriers around emissions, exporting emissions-creating industries overseas, externalities of burning coal, high emissions industries