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Coal not coming back, Apco president says

By David Gutman ROANOKE, W.Va. -- Coal consumption is not likely to increase regardless of whether new federal regulations on power plants go into effect and, from coal's perspective, the national debate on coal and climate change has largely been lost, the president of West Virginia's largest electric utility told a roomful of energy executives Tuesday.The Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, would cut coal consumption -- but even if the regulations are blocked, coal consumption will not increase, Appalachian Power President Charles Patton said at the state Energy Summit at the Stonewall Jackson Resort."You just can't go with new coal [plants] at this point in time," Patton said.

 

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