Coal plant emissions include mercury, arsenic, and sulfur dioxide, pollutants that are very dangerous to your health. (yearsoflivingdangerously.com)
The reason is because of pollution control technologies such as flue gas desulfurization, selective catalytic reducers, fabric filters, and dry sorbent injection, all of which have greatly reduced coal plant emissions. (instituteforenergyresearch.org)
Company fuel cells have a naturally high concentration of CO2 in their fuel stream — about 75 percent concentration of CO2, compared to 10 percent or so from a typical coal plant emissions stream. (scientificamerican.com)