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E.A Crunden

It’s cheaper to replace most US coal plants with renewables than keep them open

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San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm in Palm Springs, California
(Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

New research finds that replacing 74 per cent of existing coal plants with renewables would immediately reduce costs.

‘Radical socialism’ and ‘cow farts’: Republicans lash out at Democrats’ Green New Deal

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 07: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a news conference at the East Front of the U.S. Capitol February 7, 2019 in Washington, DC. The freshmen congresswoman held a news conference to call on Congress "to cut funding for President Trump's deportation force." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans attack Green New Deal as impossible and a conduit for “socialism.” Sound familiar?

Anger, protests as Australia supports US fossil fuels event at UN climate talks

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10 December 2018, Poland, Katowice: Demonstrators disturb the speech of Preston Wells Griffith, advisor to US President Trump at the Department of Energy, at the World Climate Summit. The demonstration will take place during the two-week UN climate summit COP24. Photo: Monika Skolimowska/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa (Photo by Monika Skolimowska/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Australia joins US to promote fossil fuels at UN climate conference – just days after remaining silent as US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Kuwait refused to acknowledge a key global climate report.

As United States looks to coal, China invests in renewable energy

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China solar
HUAIBEI, CHINA - APRIL 24: Workers install solar panels at a solar power station on April 24, 2018 in Huaibei, China. China's electricity consumption rose 9.8 percent year-on-year to 1.6 trillion kilowatt hours in the first quarter of 2018, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA) Tuesday. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

At least one country is rising to the occasion.

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