Sierra, you are either ignorant or a blatant liar. Coal exports out of my home town Newcastle, the worlds biggest coal port, are at the highest level they have ever been. Year after year new records for export tonnage are being set.They need to build a 4th coal loader demand is so strong. You should stop believing what you read in the lefty media about coal, and go and do some actual on the ground research yourself, particularly in the coal producing regions and you might learn something. The bottom line is , when you burn coal, you just release sequestered co2 back where it first came from, the atmosphere and then it will be again soaked up by plants and the cycle repeats. Nature is wonderful that it has given us the gift of coal. It really is the gift that keeps on giving.