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Archive Home > 2011 > January > 03 > No new coal plants begun in U.S. in ’10

No new coal plants begun in U.S. in ’10

By Steven Mufson / The Bulletin
January 3, 2011

WASHINGTON — The headline news for the coal industry in 2010 was what didn’t happen: Construction did not begin on a single new coal-fired power plant in the United States for the second straight year.

This in a nation where a fleet of coal-fired plants generates nearly half the electricity....

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