No new climate law means clean coal is on the back burner

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Date

Aug. 8, 2011

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Media Highlight

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Electric Power

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Karen Palmer

Senior Fellow; Director, Electric Power Program

Karen Palmer is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future and an expert on the economics of environmental, climate and public utility regulation of the electric power sector.

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