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Dec 26, 2011

Power plant closings to cost jobs, taxes | Tulsa World

Associated Press: For more than 90 years, the coal-fired power plant in Glen Lyn, Va., has been churning out electricity and contributing to local prosperity. Of late, it has generated nearly a quarter of the revenue for the $1 million budget of the town. Yet when the plant shuts down to comply with new federal air pollution regulations by the end of 2014, said Town Manager Howard Spencer, so, too, might the community of 200. "If the town lost all of that revenue," he said, "we would struggle to even continue to...Please contiune reading at:
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