In May, the Senate Republican Policy Committee published Obama's War on Coal, an analysis of President Obama's campaign to ban the use of coal as an energy source. Turns out, ensuring coal-fired power plants go "bankrupt" is one promise the President is trying to keep. His Energy Information Administration reports that 8.5 percent of total 2011 coal-fired power capacity will retire by 2016. In context, that is four times greater than the capacity retired during the preceding five years. The slated closure of 175 coal-fired electric generating units (EGUs) in response to the President's regulatory barrage means diminished electric reliability, higher electricity costs disproportionately burdening low-income families and seniors, and more jobs lost.

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