The government s plan, as reported in the media, to reduce the number of coal-based power plants and thus the amount of power to be generated using coal, brings relief to the concerns of environmentalists, scientists and the general public who have been campaigning against major coal use due to the danger it poses to the environment and human health. Be it for the failure to collect funds for the projects or for environmental concerns, the plan, if agreed upon, will take Bangladesh closer to the sensible world, whose policies tend to downsize and eventually discontinue coal as a major source of primary energy. There is no official statement yet and the decision is pending for a nod from the highest authority of the Government. Media sources, however, report that the government may scale down the number of large coal-based power plants to only five and scrap the other 13 in the pipeline.