Back when Utah had a governor who thought there was such a thing as air pollution and global warming, the state funded a study by Synapse Energy Economics, Inc, with the help of the Harvard School of Public Health. It estimated, predictably, that each year over 2 billion dollars in health and water costs are wasted, and approximately 200 lives lost due to coal plant power production in Utah. Not to mention that other "externality" to coal power, global warming.
Wow! Our state funded study showed us that that nasty air we see every winter is bad for us? It's time for us all to come out for energy efficiency and renewable energy power generation, right? Governor Herbert?
Of course not, this is Utah, and what happened next (below the fold) was also as predictable as it is sad.
continued at Daily Kos....
