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Published online 13 February 2008 | Nature 451, 753 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451753a
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Natural gas back in favour with US power companies
Coal gets cold shoulder as utilities anticipate carbon legislation.
Electric utilities in the United States are quietly shifting their sights from coal to natural gas as the lower-risk fuel while they wait for the nation's carbon policy to be decided.
Recent proposals to build coal-fired power plants have been sunk after hitting a wall of public and political opposition in Texas, Kansas and Florida.
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