Analysis: Obama, Coal & Climate – ‘An utterly futile climate-change gesture’

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'This is pointless, partisan pandering to the small but noisy green lobby' - 'Could lead to the shuttering of “hundreds of coal-fired power plants.' - China has been on a coal-plant-building spree. Between 2005 and 2009, that country reportedly “added the equivalent of the entire U.S. fleet of coal-fired power plants, or 510 new 600-megawatt coal plants.” Over the next four years, it “added half the coal generation of the entire U.S. again.”
Then there’s Germany. Last November, a new coal plant came online in that country. Ten additional new coal plants are expected to swing into action within the next two years. German politicians say they’re concerned about climate change, but they’ve chosen to authorize the construction of new, CO2-emitting coal plants