Gazette-Mail: ROANOKE Coal consumption is not likely to increase, regardless of whether new federal regulations on power plants go into effect, and, from coals perspective, the national debate on coal and climate change has largely been lost, the president of West Virginias largest electric utility told a roomful of energy executives Tuesday.
The Clean Power Plan, the Obama administrations proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, would cut coal consumption but even if the regulations...