Coal's demise positions U.S. well in Paris -- Sierra Club

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The significant drop in U.S. power production from coal is allowing American negotiators to make strong commitments at the Paris climate talks, the Sierra Club said today. A report by the group boasts that roughly a third of the U.S. coal fleet as it stood in 2010 has retired or is on the way toward retirement. The document says half could be gone within 10 years. "Thanks to the Beyond Coal campaign and the community leaders who have stood up against the coal industry, the U.S. is leading the world in cutting dangerous carbon pollution," former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a United Nations special envoy on climate and cities, said in a statement.