North America is blessed with enough energy supplies to promote and sustain economic growth for many generations. The government’s own reports detail this, and Congress was advised of our energy wealth when the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress released a report showing that the United States’ combined recoverable oil, natural gas, and coal endowment is the largest on Earth.
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North American Energy Inventory 2011
Thursday, December 15th, 2011A Fraction of the Jobs: A Case Study of the Job Creation Impact of Completed Coal-Fired Power Plants between 2005 and 2009
Friday, April 8th, 2011THE OCHS CENTER FOR METROPOLITAN STUDIES
Proponents of coal-burning power plants have suggested that the counties where they are located can reap an economic windfall through construction and permanent jobs. Their case is largely based on an economic modeling process that often relies on assumptions that are established with a high degree of uncertainty. Very few communities evaluate after the fact whether actual jobs were created.
NEW JOBS – CLEANER AIR: Employment Effects Under Planned Changes to the EPA’s Air Pollution Rules
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011CERES
The report finds that investments driven by the EPA’s two new air quality rules will create nearly 1.5 million jobs, or nearly 300,000 jobs a year on average over the next five years – and at a critical moment for a struggling economy. The end product will be an upgraded, cleaner American industry, along with good paying jobs and better health for the nation’s most vulnerable citizens.
The Toll From Coal: An Updated Assessment of Death and Disease from America’s Dirtiest Energy Source
Thursday, September 16th, 2010CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE
Among all industrial sources of air pollution, none poses greater risks to human health and the environment than coal-fired power plants. Emissions from coalfired power plants contribute to global warming, ozone smog, acid rain, regional haze, and—perhaps most consequential of all from a public health standpoint — fine particle pollution.
Video: Dominion’s Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center
Thursday, July 1st, 2010View of power plant contruction site from US Alt. 58 driving from Castlewood towards St. Paul -TennRJF on YouTube
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