The EPA and some European countries are on the warpath against coal. Technology exists to capture most of its emissions, so coal burning is not the dirty process it was decades ago. But coal is the main CO2 culprit in the climate change (aka global warming) debate. Some have no doubts: coal must be eliminated.
But it is not going away. The sober folks at the Energy Information Administration project coal usage will remain much the same in the decades to come, as will use of other fossil fuels.
