us coal plants Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:40:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Environmental Regulations Will Force More US Coal Plants to Retire https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:21:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26594 The US Power Grid is supported by a number of power-generation technologies, coal, oil, wind, hydro, nuclear, to name a few. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 3.9 million gigawatt-hours [Gwh] of electricity was generated by all US power plants in 2009. Close to 1.8 million GWh of that electricity was produced by […]

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