What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. In 2010, U.S.
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