Coal Industry's Survival in Question as Companies Go Green

You know things are not going well for your industry when one of your best customer gives a keynote speech at your annual conference to talk up your competition. At the Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance's 40th Annual Conference in May, electric utility Dominion Energy highlighted the company's agreement with Smithfield Foods to generate electricity from hog waste. "That's right," Dominion lobbyist James Beamer told the coal crowd, "Hog poop to green...

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