Originally Posted by Pooka

Texas has at least two coal plants that I know of, but they own their own reserves and strip mine the surface to remove the coal. The coal in Texas is Lignite, but it is cheap if you own the mine and can strip it out by the bucketful.

Both of these plants are about thirty years old.

There is a coal fired plant down the road from me. About fifty miles down the road which is close around here. The plant is rather new and I don't know what they use for pollution controls but you never see any smoke or haze belching out of them. If you could not see the place from the road you would never know it was there.