Source: John Murawski, NEWS & OBSERVER, 9/28/11


Progress Energy this week is retiring the first of several coal-burning power plants as part of a conversion to cleaner-burning natural gas. On Saturday, the Raleigh-based power company is shuttering its 62-year-old W.H. Weatherspoon Power Plant near Lumberton, about 100 miles south of Raleigh.

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