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April 27, 2012

Has Nat Gas Doomed Coal's Future?

Matthew Phillips, BusinessWeek


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Is coal doomed? The dirty yet abundant energy source has had some rough patches before, but nothing like this. In 1985 coal accounted for 57 percent of all power generated in the U.S. Last year it was 42 percent. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates. . .

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