King Coal needs to go away. If they can't buy off the EPA from implementing the new rules on coal power plants here, that will help.
RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute) is working with the Chinese to stop their massive coal use. By the way, it's not common knowledge but the coal power plants in China are more efficient and less dirty than ours.
For good news on the big plan to make coal unprofitable (and ALL other fossil fuels as well) when compared with renewables, the RMI web site has lots of info. They wrote a book called, "Reinventing Fire". There are lots of U-tube presentations of Reinventing Fire out there. I've been watching some of them and they are quite promising as well as being very hard nosed and down to earth.
http://www.rmi.org/