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Coal Terminal Decision Highlights Exports GHGs
2014-08-21 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The U.S. coal industry took a hit this week when the state of Oregon created a roadblock to a major proposed coal export terminal, which in the end, would allow Wyoming coal to be shipped to power plants in Asia. At the same time, a new Duke University study was published saying that coal shipped to South Korea from the Oregon coal terminal, if it were to be built, would lead to a 21 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions compared to burning the coal in the U.S. That's largely because of the...
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