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How Retiring Nuclear Power Plants May Undercut U.S. Climate Goals

Over the last decade, a glut of cheap natural gas from hydraulic fracturing has driven hundreds of dirtier coal plants in the United States out of business, a big reason carbon dioxide emissions fell 14 percent from 2005 to 2016.

 

Read the full article on The New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/climate/nuclear-power-retirements-us-climate-goals.html

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