Emissions rule calls future of city power plant into question

Thursday, March 8, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CST; updated 7:30 p.m. CST, Thursday, March 8, 2012

COLUMBIA — The bright rays of an industrial flashlight shine down into the cold belly of boiler No. 7. Its dark cavern routinely fires up an inferno of 2,500 degrees to burn coal and wood at the local power plant.

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