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The other reason to shift away from coal: Air pollution that kills thousands every year

  • Written by Jay Apt, Professor, Tepper School of Business, Engineering and Public Policy and Co-Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University
imageCholla power plant near Joseph City, Arizona, photographed on Jan. 16, 2010.PDTillman/Wikipedia, CC BY

When President Donald Trump announced on June 1 that he had decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, he asserted that staying in the pact would prevent our nation from further developing its fossil fuel reserves....

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