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Discuss “Researchers study life-cycle fuel emissions”

In a recently published paper called “Comparative Life-Cycle Air Emissions of Coal, Domestic Natural Gas, LNG, and SNG for Electricity Generation,” Carnegie Mellon researchers reported that natural gas may not be the most viable energy resource for future production of electricity.

Appearing in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, this paper is the result of a study carried out by civil and environmental engineering graduate student Paulina Jaramillo, Tepper School of Business professor W. Michael Griffin, and engineering and public policy professor H. Scott Matthews.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of different fuels. That is, researchers analyzed the environmental impact...

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