Article: United States: Los Angeles' 'Coal Free' Vow Scuttles Utah Power-Plant Expansion.

Byline: kusumv03

Plans for a new coal-fired power plant in central Utah were canceled after the city of Los Angeles -- the plant's biggest power purchaser -- signaled its intention to be "coal free" by 2020.

The Intermountain Power Agency -- a political subdivision of the state of Utah co-owned by municipal and rural electric cooperatives -- has dropped plans to build a proposed third 900-megawatt coal-fired generating unit at the Intermountain Power Plant near Delta, Utah.

"The project has been abandoned," IPA spokesman John Ward said yesterday. The decision came after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced last week that the city -- ...

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