I'm not debating the science just the "cart before the horse solutions"....
in which governments politicize, cater to special interests, and leave the middle class with the expense and blame. Viable economies were built on fossil fuels, so if you just turn it off (as in the US today) the majority of citizens suffer greatly. But lets be clear, the ruling class elites and their government cohorts who set this policy, hold the middle class hostage to these cart before the horse policies, will have little regard for the air you breathe, let alone your particular economic situation..
As far as coal plants go, they were being phased out (in the US over time) and LNG was the most viable and more constant replacement.(as opposed to wind and solar) However, presidential policy in 2021 made natural gas production much more expensive (regulation and leasing stalemates) and not only that, banned fracking on federal lands..Natural gas is a relatively clean fossil fuel and we have an abundant resource of this. In your area there is a lot of natural gas, so maybe get to your policy makers and tell them to get with it. It will now take longer because of the setback in 2021....probably at least three to four years when it could have been up and running by now.
I live in an area where we get most of our electricity from hydroelectric, so that's probably why my air is cleaner? However, they have shut down many smaller hydro plants in favor of the environment. But lets be clear, everything that produces energy will, in some form or another, have an impact on the environment. From the storage batteries, to the vast land space requirements of wind and solar, and on to the misgivings about nuclear energy. We have a long ways to go before we eliminate fossil fuels. So I stand fast in my rejection of government solutions that are tainted politically and lack common sense and practicality.
add; the high up in the atmosphere polution could be coming from China, Russia, India etc. But that's the rest of the story.
