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Coal power, on the other hand, where the United States derives 50% of its electricity, is not only responsible for billions of tons of CO2 entering the atmosphere, but it kills an estimated 25,000 Americans a year due to complications from its sooty particulate

Close one thousand dirty coal power plants within five years

The model also showed that regional and national approaches to transmission—rather than leaving each state to its own devices—would allow every state to meet the emission-reduction goals with 30 percent fewer renewables than they would need otherwise.

These gains include a large number of environmentally desirable changes and important health and socioeconomic benefits. Examples include less land destruction by surface coal mining, lower emissions of acid-forming gases, reduced chances for major oil spills,cleaner air in urban areas, improved visibility, and slower acidification of the ocean. By

Many of these policies that prize efficiency over emissions are still on the books, restricting your ability to lower your emissions by swapping out a gas-burning furnace for an electric heat pump—even

At 2.13 GtC equivalent to1 ppm carbon, this means that the current (idealized) costs of AC are about $1 trillion per reduced ppm of atmospheric CO2 at a cost of AC equal to $500/tC.