Early retirements will ‘take US backwards’ in fight against climate change
The failure of national energy markets to support clean energy will soon force the premature retirement of two of Illinois’s six nuclear stations, putting thousands of people out of work, raising energy costs, and taking the US decades backward in the fight against climate change, Christopher Crane, president and chief executive officer of Exelon, wrote in a Chicago Sun-Times opinion column.
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