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- Selene Law: "Make no mistake: China is still by far the biggest CO2 emitter in the world”
from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-countries-that-consume-... top 10 coal burning nations:
Consumption in exajoules ranked by 2025 use
1 China 92.24 55.6% 2 India 23.07 13.9% 3 US 8.73 5.3% 4 Indon 5.15 3.1% 5 Japan 4.36 2.6% 6 SA 3.65 2.2% 7 Russia 3.56 2.1% 8 S.Korea 2.86 1.7% 9 Vietnam 2.57 1.5% 10 Türkiye 1.79 1.1%by skmurphy - The US loves winning!
- https://www.sierraclub.org/coal/coal-plant-map
https://openenergyhub.ornl.gov/explore/dataset/eia-860-data/...
U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retired in 2025 was the least in 15 years - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67427 - April 13th, 2026
Planned retirements of U.S. coal-fired electric-generating capacity to increase in 2025 - https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64604 - February 25, 2025
~182GW of coal generation capacity remains to be retired, as of this comment, per EIA's Form EIA-860 generator dataset. The DOE was illegally mandating must run for the below coal generators, which should now be able to close due to a recent judicial ruling.
Michigan coal plant [J.H. Campbell] set to close was illegally kept open - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666023 - September 2026
J.H. Campbell Units 1, 2 and 3 in Michigan (1,331 MW) Transalta Centralia Unit 2 in Washington (670 MW) R.M. Schahfer Units 17 and 18 in Indiana (722 MW) F.B. Culley Unit 2 in Indiana (90 MW) Craig Unit 1 in Colorado (427 MW)by toomuchtodo - Well then
> US scraps limits on emissions from coal and gas power plants
by BiraIgnacio - Take all of the ethanol subsidies and build nuclear, cover parking lots with solar.
This is all we want.
by exabrial