I was at first saddened to read today that the Sierra Club had successfully harassed another weak-minded coal utility CEO into the early shuttering of a 1.3 GW coal plant in Indiana. But a short while later, I could only laugh out loud.

Here’s the plant:

Here’s the story (Web | PDF). It’s heartbreaking.

But then moments later, I found this (Web | PDF):

That’s right by the time, AEP shutters its 1.3 GW Rockport plant in 2020, a single Chinese utility will have constructed another 11GW of new coal-fired power. The Sierra Club has gained nothing except to make electricity cost more in the Midwest.