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Why the Trump Administration Should Stop Propping Up Coal

by Josiah Neeley
Nov 28, 2018
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issues: Coal, Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, Federal Government Affairs
originally published in The Financial Times

In fact, an analysis by the Rhodium Group, a research consulting firm that specializes in energy issues, showed that fuel supply issues were responsible for a mere 0.00007 percent of the hours that Americans were without power between 2012 and 2016. As Josiah Neeley, the director of energy policy for the D.C.-based think tank R Street Institute, put it, “There’s certainly not a reliability crisis. And even if there was, the proposed rule doesn’t address any of the issues with reliability that are out there.”

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