Canary Media: “Why Coal Won’t Solve the Looming Grid-Reliability Crisis”

RFF Senior Fellow Karen Palmer shares her thoughts on the reasons that coal plants retire.

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April 14, 2025

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Media Highlight

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Canary Media

Karen Palmer, a senior fellow and director of the electric power program at think tank Resources for the Future, agreed that coal retirements are “not the fault of environmental regulation. The market prices just aren’t there.”

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Senior Fellow; Director, Electric Power Program

Karen Palmer is a senior fellow at Resources for the Future and an expert on the economics of environmental, climate and public utility regulation of the electric power sector.

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