COAL EMISSION REG COSTS - COST WILL BE HIGH TO REGULATE COAL-BURNING POWER PLANT EMISSIONS

Reducing carbon dioxide and other emissions blamed for global warming from coal-burning power plants would raise the cost of electricity an average of $9 billion a year over the next 20 years, the Energy Department said. By 2020, electricity from those plants will cost 33 percent more than it would if carbon dioxide continues to be treated as an unregulated nonpollutant, Mary J. Hutzler, acting head of the department's Energy Information Administration, told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Source: Associated Press via Environmental News Network 11/5/2001

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