Being Green - 14 September 2018
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As Hurricane Florence begins to impact on the coasts of the Carolinas and the United States media accelerate into their customary, barely hysterical reporting on this very energetic weather, the timing of the Trump Administration’s latest energy-policy volte face seems, well, unfortunate. What is the change in the policy?
The US administration has put forward a greenhouse gas emissions plan that could boost output from coal-fired power plants rather than push them towards closure and result in as many as 1,400 premature deaths each year.
One prominent environmentalist called the plan “a disaster for public health and the climate”.
The US administration has put forward a greenhouse gas emissions plan that could boost output from coal-fired power plants rather than push them towards closure and result in as many as 1,400 premature deaths each year.
One prominent environmentalist called the plan “a disaster for public health and the climate”.
