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Unless legislation is passed, it's bullshit.
The reality is that the US has shut down a large chunk of its coal-burning power plants as uneconomic already.
This is largely an agreement to 'do what is cheap' which is the kind of thing which happens with relatively little government intervention (though some intervention can speed the process up)