Report Examines Hidden Costs of Energy

The external damages from sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter created by burning coal at 406 coal-fired power plants, which produce 95 percent of the nation’s coal-generated electricity, were about $62 billion in 2005. These nonclimate damages average about 3.2 cents for every kilowatt-hour of energy produced.
Those are some of the findings of [...]

Climate Change on Two Continents: Climate Action Hotline, Nov. 5

November 5, 2009

The work to clean the skies of climate changing pollution took center stage this week in influential policy forums on two continents– the 5-day UNFCCC climate negotiating session in Barcelona, and the U.S. Senate. The objective of climate advocates, which includes the White House and many Democrats on Capitol Hill was to [...]