The future environmental and health impacts of coal
The aging infrastructure of coal fired power plants is another factor resulting in closures. Between 2002 and 2018, 275 of the 530 coal plants were shut down or converted to natural gas (Richardson et al., 2017; Trabish, 2018), with plans to retire additional plants by 2030 (Richardson et al., 2017).Most coal plants in the United States were built before 1990 ( Energy Information ...