The new plan issued by the Environmental Protection Agency is meant to replace the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which sought to speed up closures of coal-burning plants and promote cleaner energy sources such as solar and wind, The New York Times reported.
A study conducted before and after the 2004 closure of a coal-burning power plant in Tongliang, China, found children born before the closure had shorter telomeres than those conceived and born after the plant stopped polluting the air, Medicalxpress reported.
The profitability of coal-burning power stations in Europe (rather than gas), is now negative," said Georgi Slavov, global head of energy, iron ore and shipping research at Marex Spectron.
Coal-burning power plants and diesel vehicles may produce pollution that is more harmful to human health than other types of pollution, a new study has found.
When Eversource's Northern Wood Power unit became operational in December 2006, it permanently replaced a 50-megawatt coal-burning boiler with a system that uses clean wood chips for fuel.
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