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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.

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Comparative genome study finds ancestral fungus may have influenced end of coal formation; potential resource for biofuel production

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Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. Coal deposits—the fossilized remains of plants—were formed during a 60-million year period from around 360 to 300 million years ago. Once you have white rot you can break down lignin, the major precursor of coal. Punctularia strigoso-zonata.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. John Kerry (D-Mass.)

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3 More Reasons I’m Happy I Dumped the Democrats

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They’re not only not fighting them, they’re wrapping their coal dusted arms around it. The other, Congressman Collin Peterson , comes from the once progressive state of Minnesota, now more famous as the home of the Tea Party Princess, Michele Bachmann.

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3 More Reasons I’m Happy I Dumped the Democrats

Creative Greenius

They’re not only not fighting them, they’re wrapping their coal dusted arms around it. The other, Congressman Collin Peterson , comes from the once progressive state of Minnesota, now more famous as the home of the Tea Party Princess, Michele Bachmann. Peterson says he wants to “rein in the EPA.”