Big coal utilities on different course than Trump administration

Published June 19, 2018 12:01am ET



Some of the largest coal utilities in the country have different ideas than President Trump about saving money-losing coal and nuclear power plants.

Many of them are switching from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas power plants and renewable energy, and they are more concerned about the cost of making the electric grid more resilient than saving ailing power plants.

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