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theenergycollective.com - 6/25/2009
New EPA analysis of Waxman-Markey: Consumer electric bills 7% lower in 2020 thanks to efficiency — plus 50 GW of extra coal retirements and no new dirty plants
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The EPA has posted its detailed analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) here .  The bottom line is that the total cost to consumers is low, just as CBO found — just as all major independent analyses of even strong action show (see “” Intro to climate economics ...
realclimate.org - 6/30/2009
Bubkes
— realclimate.org — Some parts of the blogosphere, headed up by CEI (" CO2: They call it pollution, we call it life! "), are all a-twitter over an apparently "suppressed" document that supposedly undermines the EPA Endangerment finding about human emissions of carbon ... (more) Bubkes

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epa.gov - 6/29/2009
Fact Sheet: Coal Combustion Residues (CCR) - Surface Impoundments with High Hazard Potential ...
— epa.gov — EPA530-F-09-006 June 2009 Over the past several months, EPA has undertaken a concerted effort to identify and to assess the structural integrity of impoundments, dams, or other management units, within the electric power generating industry, holding ... (more) Fact Sheet: Coal Combustion Residues (CCR) - Surface ...

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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 6/25/2009
EPA: Waxman-Markey Will Lower Electricity Bills
— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Our guest blogger is Daniel J. Weiss, a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The main argument conservatives and big oil and coal companies use against the American Clean Energy and ... (more) EPA: Waxman-Markey Will Lower Electricity Bills

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