MIT Coal Study Preview featuring Dr. John M. Deutch

The CSIS Energy Program hosted Dr. John M. Deutch, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to discuss the forthcoming MIT Coal Study.  As follow-on to the nuclear power study, a second MIT faculty group is now engaged in a multi-disciplinary study of the technical, institutional, and public policy factors bearing on the future of coal in a greenhouse gas constrained world.

The purpose of the MIT coal study is to produce an integrated set of policy recommendations for actions that, if adopted, will enable coal to continue to play an important role in the production of electricity over the next half century, while constraining the growth of greenhouse gas concentrations. 

With opening remarks by Dr. John J. Hamre, CSIS President and CEO and comments by Robert E. Ebel, Chairman, CSIS Energy Program.