Coal Plants Face New Obstacles in U.S.
A coal plant permit in Utah was rejected [] yesterday by the E.P.A on the basis of lack of control of carbon dioxide [search]. The ruling puts in question permits for as many as 100 new plants [search], and should aid lawsuits against them as well.
This comes as the International Energy Agency confirms that coal will continue being the leading source of energy globally until at least 2030 []. A week earlier in their annual report that had warned that the world’s energy use was “patently unsustainable” [ark] and warned of 6°C rise in average global temperatures []. As long as coal is burned to produce electricity, dumping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there is zero chance of maintaining historically reliable climatic patterns or a habitable Earth.
A Planner's Guide for Selecting Clean-Coal Technologies for Power Plants (World Bank Technical Paper)
