In addition to the primary heat-trapping gas carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and black carbon soot are also emitted when we burn coal to generate electricity. Both pollutants contribute to human-induced climate change and air pollution. As long as coal-fire electricity plants are in service, steps can be taken to employ available emission reduction technologies. Such actions would contribute to reducing the impacts of climate change, as well as have ancillary benefits of reducing some of the other pollutants that coal-fired facilities emit, such as sulfur dioxide, mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, other toxic heavy metals, and trace amounts of uranium.