The new wastewater rule is requiring power plants to clean coal ash and toxic heavy metals.

Expected to effect 75 coal fired power plants nationwide.

Dozens of those plants are expected to stop burning this decade. 

Complying with the stricter rules ahead. 

The rule will reduce the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s water-ways by about 386,000,000 pounds—annually.

Expected to cost plant operators nearly $200,000,000 per year.

As the industry continues moving away from the planet-warming fossil fuel to make electricity.

Those plants had a deadline set for last month-to tell their state regulators how they planned to comply.

With flexibility to include upgrading their pollution-control equipment or retiring their coal-fired generating units by 2028.

According to the Sierra Club, at least 26 plants in 14 states said they will stop burning coal.