text: Lyons told me: "The biggest issue facing utilities is the closure of 300 coal-fueled power plants. This represents tens of thousands of jobs in the coal mining industry and billions of dollars of revenues for local, state and federal government." There are no plans to effectively replace the comparatively cheap electricity. Progressive thought leaders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhous state: "Energy poverty causes more harm to the poor than global warming" and cheap energy "makes the poor vastly less vulnerable to climate impacts."