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Owners of Big Sandy throw in the towel and withdraw $1bn retrofit plans

Michael Allan McCrae | May 31, 2012 | 5:27 am Energy Coal 

New York Times reports that Big Sandy, an eastern Kentucky coal-burning plant, will not be retrofitted so it can meet environmental regulations. AEP, as the Ohio-based company is known, did not formally declare that it was retiring Big Sandy. But...

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