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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal in these two regions account for a little under two gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, with 1.29 Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). A moral imperative.

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Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

The rule, which also applies to new gas plants, would avoid as much as 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042, the EPA calculated , the equivalent of the annual emissions of 137 million passenger vehicles—about half of the cars in the country. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

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