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The Impact of Powder River Basin Coal Exports on Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Summary/Abstract

This report details and responds to the arguments that there will be no net increase in global GHG emissions as a result of the expansion of PRB coal mining and the construction of rail and port infrastructure on the West Coast.

THOMAS MICHAEL POWER & DONOVAN S. POWER, THE ENERGY FOUNDATION, THE IMPACT OF POWDER RIVER BASIN COAL EXPORTS ON GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS (2013)

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May 2013
Thomas Michael Power, Donovan S. Power
The Energy Foundation
Online Resource
China, North America, South Asia, United States
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