Senate panel waters down coal-gas measure

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Senate committee is leaving a contentious battle over a proposed $3 billion coal-gasification plant in the Indiana Supreme Court’s hands for now.

A proposal taken up Thursday by the Senate utilities committee would have forced the plant’s developers to refund rate hikes caused by their 30-year contract with the state before the end of that deal.

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