Its common knowledge that coal is America’s leading fuel source for electrical power generation, and it is also responsible for more than one-third of the nation’s carbon-dioxide emissions- pollution that causes global warming!
The problem is, “more nuclear plants in the U.S will not alleviate the global-warming problem so long as other countries roll out new coal-fired power plants. By some estimates China commissions a new coal-fired power station every 10 days even as it moves forward on ambitious plans to open new nuclear plants.”- Matthew Auer (The Desert Sun)