NRG puts Kibosh on Coal Plant

One of the Connecticut's largest electricity producers has dropped plans for a power plant in Montville using new "clean coal" technology and instead is moving forward with plans to build a conventional gas-fired plant there.New Jersey-based NRG is proposing a natural gas-fired plant that could be retrofitted to one day use the coal technology, said Ray Long, Northeast region director for the company. "Clean Coal" does not reduce emissions of gasses that cause global warming. Read the Courant story.