Want Quick Progress on Climate Change? Clean Up ‘Hyper-Polluting’ Coal Plants

Photo: Mount Storm Power Station in West Virginia. Photo credit: Griffin Lotz.  Article by Tim Dickinson. Rolling Stone – July 29, 2021.

Just 5 percent of the globe’s power plants generate nearly 75 percent of the carbon pollution from electricity

The challenge of curbing global carbon emissions can seem insurmountable. But a new study of global power-plant pollution suggests that enormous reductions could be achieved by targeting a small number of “hyper-polluting” facilities. Just 5 percent of the world’s power […]

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