Found this on another thread and found it interesting if true.
Not sure the source but if this is even close to accurate, the world can move away from blaming the USA
for their perceived climate change and $$$ grab of this nation's wallet under the banner of a "carbon tax".

How many coal plants are there in the world today?

The EU has 468 building 27 more... Total 495

Turkey has 56 building 93 more... Total 149

South Africa has 79 building 24 more... Total 103

India has 589 building 446 more... Total 1036

Philippines has 19 building 60 more... Total 79

South Korea has 58 building 26 more... Total 84

Japan has 90 building 45 more... Total135

China has 2363 building 1171 more...Total 3534

That’s 5,615 projected coal powered plants in just 8 countries.

USA HAS 15 BUILDING 0 MORE ..... TOTAL 15

Pretty sure we have more then 15 coal plants.

The US is sitting on about a half a trillion tons of coal. Seems foolish not to make good use of it.

I know that they are changing or coal power plants over to gas. Better emissions.

I certainly do not want to put American Coal miners out of work, but I'm very concerned with acid rain down wind of the coal burning plants.

The average share of electricity generated from coal in the US has dropped from 52.8% in 1997 to 27.4% in 2018. In 2017, there were 359 coal-powered units at the electrical utilities across the US, with a total nominal capacity of 256 GW (compared to 1024 units at nominal 278 GW in 2000).

google

big shift has been to natural gas because its cheaper now and you probably couldn't build a coal fired plant even if it put out 0 emissions

I know farmers adding sulfur to corn ground, twenty some pounds per acre.

CDR Carl spent a couple years working in Ohio coal fired plants installing scrubbers, billions spent on upgrades. Same plants the government insisted have upgrades, goverment then squeezed out of business.

The problem with the glorious Paris Accord, is the big polluters were left out on exemption till later.

Not sure where you heard about acid rain, but I live 30 minutes from a coal power plant and fish the river directly beneath it and have been rained on plenty. Just normal rain, All the plants around all of the power plants I have been around look awfully green and healthy, for background I build mining equipment and have been to 15 coal mines and 5 coal fired power plants. Not saying i'm an expert but I have some first hand knowledge

We have the knowlage to burn coal clean. But the oil loby is keeping us from doing so.

15 coal plants???
Maybe one state
in 2017 there were 359 in USA

Some acid rain occurs naturally, but sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from smokestacks combine with rain to make sulfuric and nitric acid in amounts that harm the environment. The region of the United States most harmed by acid rain is the East Coast, including the Appalachian Mountains and the Northeast.

Not to mention the acidic water freeing mercury from rocks.

Mercury is a highly toxic element that becomes an air pollutant largely through emissions from coal-fired power plants. It is also broken free from rock and soil by acidic water. Small amounts are also contained in the same pollution that causes acid rain

The NYS Dept. of Health issued a warning in April 2005 that still stands urging that women of child-bearing age and children younger than 15 avoid eating fish from most waters in the Adirondack and Catskill mountain regions because of mercury contamination. Larger predatory freshwater fish like black bass, walleye and pike generally contain higher levels of methylmercury.

Acid rain devastated the Adirondack fisheries for decades, wiping out fish in lakes and streams . I believe it is on the way to recovery.

https://www.statista.com/statistics...coal-power-plants-in-selected-countries/

There will be two less in IL. Synergy is closing the duck creek station and the plant in Havana, IL. This is after millions was spent to upgrade the plants . Makes no sense to me.

Acid rain was supposed to kill us all in the 80's just like the ice age in the 70's and global warming in the 90's. Now because of climate change we only have 12 years to live lol.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...1st-new-u-s-plant-since-2015-set-to-open

We are now Sulphur deficient in this part of the state. We used to get free Sulphur, spread by nature. Now we buy the Sulphur, pay to have it trucked, then we have to spread it. Like the old system better. Every one now has blossom end rot on their tomatoes from lack of Sulphur, but a handful of gypsum for every plant and it goes away. I call it a Liberal disease since they shut down the coal plants here. Mike

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-every-power-plant-in-the-united-states/

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/

Low points on the co2 graph coincide with ice ages?
Of course co and co2 levels are higher now and increasing in the last ten thousand years. Humans are the problem here, no other species has changed/ruined the environment like we have.