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How The U.S. Natural Gas Boom Just Caused More US Coal Exports
2014-03-26 07:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateProgress: Thanks to the natural gas boom, carbon dioxide emissions dropped in the United States. But those emissions savings were probably completely undone thanks to U.S. coal exports. That`s the finding from new research by CO2 Scorecard, which looked at how the U.S. coal industry increase its exports in order to deal with the rise of natural gas in the nation`s power market. Many, including the White House, have touted natural gas as a "bridge fuel" to renewable power, since burning it only releases...
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