Market Shocks Caused Coal Plants' Financial Pain — Study

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Date

Oct. 23, 2017

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Media Highlight

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E&E News

"Power plant emissions of nitrogen oxides, a lung irritant that is a key ingredient in ozone, fell by about two-thirds during that time. In an interview, Joshua Linn, one of the paper's authors and a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, attributed the bulk of the emissions drop to EPA caps put in place under the Clean Air Interstate Rule and its successor, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, and the fact that coal-fired plants were running less."

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Electric Power

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Joshua Linn

Senior Fellow

Josh Linn is a senior fellow at RFF. His research centers on the effects of environmental policies and economic incentives for new technologies in the transportation, electricity, and industrial sectors.

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