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Hansen paper emphasizes importance of retention and expansion of nuclear power for health and climate reasons

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Results for (b) the high-end and (c) low-end projections of nuclear power production by the IAEA for the period 2010?2050. The larger columns in panels b and c reflect the all coal case and are labeled with mean values; the smaller columns reflect the all gas case; values for the latter are not shown because they are all simply a factor of ?

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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. Waxman of California and Edward J. Overview of WCI. Gases: All 6 Kyoto gases.

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