U.S. Steel idling Zug Island plant, laying off up to 1,545

[Richard]

^ pretty cool info on the naming of the piles.

West Virginia coal is different in that it burns cleaner and does not have that sooty smudge like a lot of the dirtier coal,I guess it is like the Cadillac of coals.

I think they get a bad rap because everybody equates coal as coal and dirty,if West Virginia could be the sole provider it probably would have zero environmental impact,but the other coal producing states would not allow it politically.

Our power plant was run on coal,and they owned the coal mines to supply it,every day twice the coal trains would come through.

The city sold the plant and mines 3 years ago and it was converted to natural gas but you cannot really tell the difference in what is coming out of the stacks.

The article said it was idling the plant and it did not say they were phasing it out,there is a national Security aspect on being able to maintain or ramp up production in an emergency.