Despite rhetoric of homegrown energy, Colorado coal increasingly headed overseas | The American Independent

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It makes sense that companies mining Colorado coal would seek overseas markets, especially given the political push in recent years to transition the state's coal-fired power plants to natural gas, which burns about 50 percent cleaner than coal. But the emissions benefits – at least in terms of carbon dioxide – will apparently be a wash when Colorado coal is burned for electricity in Asia.