[TheRealVille]

If you look at all the gas-fired powerhouses being built across the country right now vs. the coal units being built, you would see that new coal units are the very small minority at present. If the power companies that use coal units don't clean up their act as far as the EPA is concerned, Obama won't have to push to hard IF he wants them gone. AEP at the Big Sandy Plant in Louisa, has stated that they can pay the fines until 2014 and still come out ahead, rather than clean up the emissions coming out of their stack. That is the kind of disregard that will cause the downfall of coal units. They will do it to themselves and the coal industry.

BTW, gas fired units of the co-gen type, are 100% emission free.