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Renewable Energy Yielded Sizable Benefits, Other Impacts in 2013

Results show $2.2 billion from reduced greenhouse gas emissions, $5.2 billion from air pollution reduction.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

A new study by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) estimates that $2.2 billion in benefits came from reduced greenhouse gas emissions and $5.2 billion from reductions in other air pollution, in mid-range estimates, for state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) policies operating in 2013. A Retrospective Analysis of the Benefits and Impacts of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards also...

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