Coal: the United States promotes while Canada and Europe move beyond.(Environment Watch Environmental Watch)

From: The Humanist | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Brown, Lester R. | Copyright information

On November 24, 2003, the U.S. Congress abandoned hope of passing an energy bill laden with subsidies for fossil fuels, including coal. While the White House strongly supports heavy subsidies to expand coal burning, other industrial nations, including Canada, are turning away from this climate-disruptive fuel.

In Ontario, Canada's most populous province, the three major political parties agreed in early 2003 to phase out that province's rive large coal-fired power plants...

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