This report summary comes from the Civil Society Institute. A “business as usual” strategy for the U.S. electric power industry means the country continues to rely heavily on coal and other fossil fuels to meet its energy needs. This is not tenable if we are to achieve substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions over the…
Report: Consumers don’t see health and water impacts from coal and nuclear
Some of the little understood and well hidden water, health and other costs from electricity produced in the U.S. by coal and nuclear electricity production are detailed in an analysis recently released by Synapse Energy Economics Inc., for the nonprofit and nonpartisan Civil Society Institute (CSI) think tank. A few shockers include: 200 billion gallons…