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Coal Plants Lock in 300 Billion Ton of CO2 Emissions
2014-08-28 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: It seems straightforward to say that when you buy a new car by taking out a loan, you're committing to spending a certain amount of your income per month on that car for a specific period of time. Of course, by buying that car, you're also committing to polluting the atmosphere with some amount of carbon dioxide. But how often do car buyers make that calculation? The same can be said for coal-fired power plants, which spew billions of tons of climate-changing CO2 into the atmosphere each year,...
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