EcoWatch: The Sierra Club and a growing coalition of local, regional and national allies announced yesterday the retirement of its 150th coal plant--a significant milestone in the ongoing campaign to move the country beyond coal no later than 2030. With the announcement that the Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts would retire by 2017, the campaign officially marked 150 coal plants that have announced plans to retire since 2010, spurring record increases in clean energy.
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