The Climate Stakes of Trump’s Power Move
View on Axios website"One level deeper: Two analysts with Resources For the Future (RFF), a nonpartisan think tank, say their modeling shows that preventing a 'typical, unprofitable' one-gigawatt coal plant from closing causes 2.9 million tons of CO2 emissions per year.
Their short note over the weekend also says that preventing a money-losing one-gigawatt nuclear plant from closing reduces CO2 emissions by 3.5 million tons annually.
But, but, but: The RFF note points out that over the last four years, coal plants have been retiring at a rate of roughly eight gigawatts annually, while nuclear capacity retirements have been about one gigawatt annually for the last five years."
