For 2nd Year in a Row, No New Coal Plants Built in US

Photo: Zero1o1 , Flickr, CC While the more sweeping changes needed to definitively address climate change remained elusive in 2010, looking back on the year yields some subtler good news: For the second straight year, there was no new construction a single coal plant on US soil. The Washington Post ran a story over the weekend analyzing the 2010 investment trends in the energy sector — and guess which fuel source was losing out? Spurred by a lack of market interest, co… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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For 2nd Year in a Row, No New Coal Plants Built in US

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