People are increasingly showing opposition to coal fired power plants around the world. The US decided a court case in April 2008 that forces the US's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consider CO2 a pollutant. This makes climate impacts a factor is deciding whether or not to build a coal fired power plant and has put a freeze on the construction of 100 plants.
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We can talk all we want but unless we stop the construction of coal fired power plants the effort to reduce CO2 emissions will be fruitless. Coal is so cheap and in such abundance in the USA that if a coal fire power plant is built it will burn coal for several decades.
China is the one with the heaviest dilemma when it comes to coal.
Carbon Sequestration is the only "silver bullet" for coal fired power plants that i have ever heard of. But since this article in 1999 that describes carbon sequestration not much has been done to implement it.
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