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From: Wharf Rat1/9/2020 12:25:05 PM
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Reduced coal generation drove (US) power sector greenhouse emissions down 10% in 2019, report says

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Though carbon emissions from the power sector rose slightly in 2018, a continued trend of declining coal power led to improved results in 2019. Natural gas replaced the majority of the lost generating capacity from coal, adding around 40 million metric tons of carbon emissions to the sector. But coal retirements cut emissions by 190 million metric tons, creating a net decrease of 150 million metric tons in the power sector.

Meanwhile, mass coal plant retirements between 2005 and 2016 saved an estimated 26,610 lives, 570 million bushels of corn, wheat and soybeans, and reduced regional climate impacts, according to the UCSD report. Smog-causing pollutants such as sulfur and nitrogen, as well as carbon monoxide and heavy metals are some of the “short-lived climate pollutants,” that don’t necessarily stay in the atmosphere but instead linger regionally, and are specific to coal power, the report noted.

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