Michigan FReeper jenk has done extraordinary work in a 24 part series on a coal-fired power plant in Rogers City, Michigan...(part 23 here)...
http://jennerationx.com/2009/12/the-proposed-coal-fired-power-plant-in-rogers-city-mi-part-23/
That is awesome stuff right there. Will read more when I have more time, but what I have read is just excellent, a modern case study in why our economy is bogged down.