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U.S. electricity markets increasingly favor alternatives to coal / James Bradbury. World Resources Institute, April 2012, 4 p. (Fact sheet)http://pdf.wri.org/factsheets/factsheet_us_electricity_markets_favor_alternatives_to_coal.pdfThe U.S. electric power system is gradually shifting toward cleaner forms of generation. One sign of this transition is the declining use of coal for electric power production. In 2011, use of coal for U.S. power generation dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade, according to the federal government’s independent U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). In fact, the EIA reported1 earlier in 2012 that coal’s share of total U.S. electric power generation dropped below 40% for the last two months of 2011, the lowest level since 1978...