The demise of coal-fired power plants

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The rise of cheap and plentiful shale natural gas is hastening the fall of older, coal-fired power plants.

Oct. 4, 2012 The Salem Harbor Power Station in Salem, Mass., a 65-acre coal- and oil-fired power plant built in 1951, will soon be demolished to make room for a natural gas-fired plant. Ricky Carioti/THE WASHINGTON POST

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