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The Coal Shebang
Colorado utility voluntarily shuts down two coal plants |
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21 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:01 AM on 21 Aug 2008 Two coal-fired power plants in Colorado will be shut down -- not because green groups sued like crazy to make it happen, but because a utility volunteered. Citing concerns about public health and greenhouse-gas emissions, Xcel Energy asked permission of state regulators to close its coal plants, and regulators have approved the plan. Xcel becomes the first utility in the country to shut dow ... |
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| Topics: coal, Colorado, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, progress, solar thermal power, utilities, wind power (all these topics) |
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That Darn Pat
Coal-fired cooperative coughs up cash to climate crank |
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28 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| That Darn Pat Coal-fired cooperative coughs up cash to climate crank Say you don't like the results of climate science. What to do? Us, we suffer from night terrors. But the Colorado-based Intermountain Rural Electric Association -- a group heavily invested in coal-burning utilities -- is going with the fossil-fuel industry's favorite alternate strategy: buy more favorable science! They've donated $100,000 to notorious climat ... |
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| Topics: coal, Colorado, energy, news (all these topics) |
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