And now there is this:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/21/us-usa-epa-mercury-idUSTRE75K57620110621?feedType=RSS&virtualBrandChannel=11563
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/San-Antonio-coal-plant-to-be-apf-71946223.html?x=0&.v=2
June 17, 2011|By Julie Wernau, Tribune reporter
Illinois receives 46 percent of its electricity from coal-fired power plants — a cheap source of power but also one of the dirtiest.
With some companies unwilling to pay for scrubbers and pollution controls required by pending environmental regulations, many plants will close. That raises the potential for consumers' electricity bills to jump 40 to 60 percent over the next few years as more expensive power fills the void.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-17/business/ct-biz-0617-bf-replacing-coal-20110617_1_energy-efficiency-power-plants-scrubbers
As many as a million jobs will be lost because of this.
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