Interlinked Climate & Energy Challenges

2009Feb15: Coal-fired power plants and total carbon emissions.

2009Feb15: The 600 or so coal-fired power plants in the US are responsible for about a third of the country’s total carbon emissions (NY Times, 2009).

Reference: New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/business/15coal.html

Image Description: Coal power plant in Ames, Iowa. Photo by Manop, 2008Feb20. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coal_power_plant_Datteln_2_Crop1.png Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

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