Harvard: Coal adds 18 cents a kilowatt hour to your bill

Submitted by Editor on Wed, 02/16/2011 - 3:15pm

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Harvard Study: Coal costs US Public up to $500 Billion Annually
That's above the market price of coal fired electricity

Aboard the Greenpeace ship Artic Sunrise in Boston Harbor this morning Paul Epstein of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health & Global Environment announced the findings of his new study on the life-cycle external costs of U.S. Appalacian mined coal. The chart on right os from the Harvard pamphlet about the report.

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