Climate change concerns are intesifying and coal is being acknowledged by a growing number of people as the crux of the problem.  The push to make coal "clean", viewed as the only viable solution by the coal industry, seems certain to raise the cost of producing energy from coal so high that it will have to be funded by the government.

The fallout from this includes a deluge of plans for new coal-burning power plants being denied as the coal industry fights to survive.

Read the story at the New York Times.