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Mileage from megawatts

A new study by DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory finds that idle electric power system capacity can generate electricity for 84% of the country's plug-in hybrid vehicles. This would reduce reliance on foreign oil and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Carnegie Mellon's Granger Morgan pens op-ed

Morgan argues that legislators should impose regulations to prevent the construction of long-lived conventional coal plants. The US electricity industry plans to build 154 new plants in the next 24 years, with 50 slated for construction within five years.