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Latest hot commodity: coal
As coal prices rise, U.S. coal exports boom |
Tom Philpott |
21 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Environmentalists have helped scuttle more than 50 coal-fired power plants in the U.S. in the past year. That's fantastic. But the movement to stop coal won't help the climate unless it can globalize; for the climate, coal burned in China traps just as much warmth as coal burned in Texas. Nor will stopping more U.S. coal-fired power plants help save communities in the mining zones of Appalachia from environmental and economic devastation. That's because U.S. coal ... |
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| Topics: business, coal, consumerism, energy, international politics (all these topics) |
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