[reaganaut1]

Let the people who voted for politicians who shut down coal plants face the consequences.

[ken5050]

“Frack ‘em!!!”

[Little Ray]

Let ‘em freeze in the dark.

Meanwhile, in GA, we’re FINALLY bringing our new Nuke on-line...

[Pietro]

So their elecrticity rates "skyrocketed" after the EPA shutdown dozens of plants in the northeast and what...

People are shocked that they can't afford to heat their homes?

[Parley Baer]

“as the coal-fired power plants that utilities have relied on to meet the surge in demand are shuttered for environmental reasons.”

No, they were shut down for political reasons.

[RayChuang88]

Here in the USA, burning coal is not the dirty air pollutant it once was, thanks to modern emission controls to remove the sulfur compounds and heavy metals from the coal in the exhaust stream. As such, it's still a viable source of generating electric power until something like the molten salt reactor design for nuclear reactors get commercialized.