With more power plants being built, is our environmental quality getting worse?
• Actually, just the opposite is true. Air quality today is better than it has been in a generation, partly because we’ve invested in technologies for cleaner power plants. As a result, the process of using coal to generate electricity is now 77 percent cleaner in terms of emissions currently regulated under existing Clean Air Act programs per unit of energy produced.
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