Coal-burning power stations have cut output significantly, while gas-burning has surged ahead, faster than renewables.
Health experts say coal-burning power plants produce far more pollution linked to respiratory health problems than natural gas-fired plants produce.
The emissions licensing regime, shortening the lifespan of coal-burning power stations, has already begun to take big lumps out of capacity.
He will also announce plans for a fresh round of soft loans to help clean up China's filthy coal-burning power stations.
Proponents point to the particulates released by coal-burning power plants, which, according to some estimates, cause 20, 000 premature deaths annually in the U.S. alone.
Coal-burning power plants may get a new life and one that is tied to the co-firing of biomass, or wood chips, that may result in less pollution.
Beijing catches so much of the pollution from coal-burning power plants because it sits at the center of a ring of mountains, which help trap the smog.
McCarthy would succeed Lisa Jackson, who was repeatedly forced to defend her EPA stance favoring tougher federal standards on toxic pollutants and mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants.
RWE, for example, is dropping dark hints about scrapping a DM4.5 billion project to build a coal-burning power plant in the north-west, wiping out 14, 000 new jobs a blow in a country where unemployment is nearly 11%.
For one thing, there's disagreement over how much it should cost for the Capitol Power Plant--which provides heating and cooling power to Congress--to use cleaner-burning natural gas instead of coal power.
American Electric Power agreed late Friday in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, to retire or switch to natural gas two coal-burning units at the Muskingum River power plant in Ohio and the Tanners Creek power plant in Indiana by the end of 2015.
Most of this decrease was due directly to the decreasing use of coal in power plants and the increase in combustion of clean-burning natural gas.
Taking the place of coal will be clean-burning natural gas and clean, green solar and wind power.
The latest subsidy changes mean that for many firms it's not worthwhile building bespoke biomass power stations, but it is worthwhile converting some existing coal-burning stock.
Two summers ago, a truckload of Beijing municipal workers turned up in my neighborhood and began unspooling heavy-duty black power lines, which they attached to our houses, in preparation for a campaign to replace coal-burning furnaces with electric radiators.
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