Clean air rules cloud future of U.P. power plant
Transmission lines could replace coal-fired utility
By Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel
Looming environmental rules may lead We Energies to shut down the only major power plant serving Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the next five or six years.
And similar scenarios are playing out across the Midwest, where operators of coal-fired plants – the predominant producers of electricity in the region – are grappling with how to comply with impending U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards limiting emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and other pollutants from their smokestacks. …