What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2023
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. Since around 2008, natural gas use has been the mirror image of coal use.
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