Sentences with phrase «recent coal plant retirement»

Doing so provides important context for recent coal plant retirement announcements, particularly given that some companies have attributed retirements to EPA rules that are still years away from going into force.

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To date, more than a third of the nation's on - campus coal plants have been retired or are slated for retirement — including recent announcements from University of Cincinnati and Wooster College.

The study found that the EPA rules, combined with a recent drop in the price of natural gas, could over the next four to five years cause the utility industry to accelerate retirement of old coal - fired power plants rather than spend to upgrade the plants» emissions controls.