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by Shawn Schuster via greendaily.com

Over at Earth2Tech, they’ve been holding their own countdown to extinction for coal power plants. This Coal Death Watch Map adds a small marker to a map of the US every time a coal-fired power plants closes down.

Yet they were thrown a bit of a curve ball on a recent coal plant closing. The Mitchell Plant in Albany, Georgia is a coal plant that will not be closing its doors completely, but it will be converting over to a biomass utility plant. This conversion will allow the plant to function cheaper and with lower emissions than it has for all these years. It seems utility companies are discovering the skyrocketing expenses involved with maintaining a coal plant, and they’re scrambling to secure more green energy sources to meet demand.