I lived within five miles from a Duke Energy coal-fired power plant for over 20 years, they’ve spent considerable money putting scrubbers on the smoke stacks. There is no faint yellowish-brown streak across the sky anymore as there was two decades ago, hasn’t been for years, just steam for all I can tell. Even if there is some level of pollution remaining, I’m all for keeping it up and running. Solar is too peaky and expensive, wind is unreliable here. Hydroelectric gets the environmentalists upset for some reason despite being one of the cleanest, and nuclear? Forget it, people are entirely irrational and will not allow another to be built. Electricity is relatively inexpensive here in NC and I’d prefer to keep it that way.