“So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can – it’s just that it will bankrupt them.” President Obama, 2008
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is forecasting an increase in the number of coal-fired plants that will be prematurely retired due to onerous regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In 2008, then-Presidential candidate Obama said that if he were elected, any company that wanted to build a coal-fired plant could do so, but it would bankrupt ...