I don't expect W to snap his fingers and make it go away. I do expect him to take action to at least make some progress towards remedying the problem, especially given the current global situation with the WOT and the emerging 3rd world demands on energy.
IMHO, we need to move from coal-fired plants anyways. That alone would free up the resources that are being consumed mining, and transporting the coal, and at the same time relieving the need to acquire more land for rails.
Don't think there's another option but nu-kew-ler and those plants would take time to build.
With more than 200 years of known coal supply at todays usage levels that would be foolish.