New UCSB study offers data-driven strategies for shuttering America’s remaining coal plants.Credit :UCSB Even as coal power steadily declines in the United States, over 100 coal plants continue to operate with no retirement plans, threatening national climate targets. A new study led by researchers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) offers a data-driven roadmap to accelerate the coal phaseout and meet net-zero emissions goals. Published in Nature Energy, the study addresses a pressin