Hill: A shift by utilities to cleaner burning natural gas helped carbon pollution from power plants fall over the last three years, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday.
EPA began reporting data gathered from 8,000 facilities across the largest pollution-emitting industries on greenhouse gas in 2010. Since, power plant carbon emissions have declined 10 percent.
The drop in emissions is attributed to a decrease in coal production for electricity generation...