Do Coal and Gas Power Plants Affect You and Where You Live?
Do Coal and Gas Power Plants Affect You and Where You Live?
There are existing and planned fossil fuel plants across the country. Explore the Existing Coal and Planned Gas Power Plant maps below to learn more about those plants.
Grassroots pressure combined with economic realities will end the coal industry, and consumers and workers alike are speeding this inevitable transition.
Is There a Coal Plant Near You?
Our map shows the existing coal plants in America and those that have retired or committed to retirement. We also track where gas pipelines and plants are threatening a clean energy future. We’re working toward a future where all these map circles show clean, renewable energy.
See The MapBuilding new gas power plant infrastructure is a particular danger to Black, Brown and Indigenous communities, who bear a disproportionate burden from the consequences of fracked gas.
Is There a Planned Gas Plant Near You?
Across the country, companies are planning a massive buildout of new gas power plants. Fracked gas is a danger to all communities, risking public health, environmental devastation, and climate disruption. This interactive tracker includes information on all electric sector planned gas power plants in the US.
See the MapAir pollution from coal plants causes thousands of deaths per year, often in communities hundreds of miles away.
How are coal plants impacting you?
Coal plants that remain today have an outsized burden on public health. Our updated analysis, using new data courtesy of Clean Air Task Force, shows one of the most detailed assessments of the direct impacts of soot and smog pollution from coal plants to date.
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