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Big Texas utility to end coal use
San Antonio’s municipal utility adopted a plan to stop using coal at the J.K. Spruce power plant later this decade, but critics questioned plans to use natural gas.
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State of Play
The use of coal, a staple of heating and electricity-generation for decades, is in decline in the United States — supplanted by newly abundant production of natural gas — but is still dominant in some parts of the world. While economical, coal use is particularly problematic as international attention focuses increasingly on climate change.