The World Needs a Cash-for-Coal-Clunkers Program

Greentech Media
By info@greentechmedia.comJul 16, 2020, 8:10 am170 pts
Justin Guay is director for global climate strategy at the Sunrise Project. *** For just 5 percent of what the U.S. has spent on its COVID-19 recovery package, it could have bought out and retired every coal plant in the world. Instead, the U.S. coal industry is benefiting from recovery programs while the…

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