: "If the more than 150 coal-fired power plants being planned in the United States were built it would boost coal demand 30 percent and raise national emissions of gases thought to cause global warming by 10 percent, according to an advocacy group."
"This list is illustrative of a phenomenon -- which is after years of no coal plants being built, all of a sudden there's a flurry of plans for them," said Rob Sargent, an energy analyst at PIRG. He said that by the 2020s, coal-fired capacity could reach the highest levels in 40 years.