US coal 'biggest contributor by far' to rise in global emissions

toomuchtodo

https://www.sierraclub.org/coal/coal-plant-map https://openenergyhub.ornl.gov/explore/dataset/eia-860-data/... U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retired in 2025 was the least in 15 years - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67427 - April 13th, 2026 Planned retirements of U.S. coal-fired electric-generating capacity to increase in 2025 - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64604 - February 25, 2025 ~182GW of coal generation capacity remains to be retired, as of this comment, per EIA's Form EIA-860 generator dataset. The DOE was illegally mandating must run for the below coal generators, which should now be able to close due to a recent judicial ruling. Michigan coal plant [J.H. Campbell] set to close was illegally kept open - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666023 - September 2026 J.H. Campbell Units 1, 2 and 3 in Michigan (1,331 MW) Transalta Centralia Unit 2 in Washington (670 MW) R.M. Schahfer Units 17 and 18 in Indiana (722 MW) F.B. Culley Unit 2 in Indiana (90 MW) Craig Unit 1 in Colorado (427 MW)

exabrial

Take all of the ethanol subsidies and build nuclear, cover parking lots with solar. This is all we want.

AuthAuth

a drop in the bucket

BiraIgnacio

Well then > US scraps limits on emissions from coal and gas power plants https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmly433ke05vo