Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5001690 The Electricity Journal 2016 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
The political rhetoric would have it that the dramatic decline in the use of coal in the U.S. since 2008 has been a result of 'Obama's war on coal' - that is, the EPA's Clean Air rules. But the data say otherwise. Rather, enabled by shale drilling, cheap natural gas is outcompeting coal markedly. An analysis that includes gas's techno-economic pluses concludes the trend will continue.
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