Finally: A "Rosy Picture" for Natural Gas

Billings Gazette front page story suggests "rosy future" for natural gas.

Natural gas is poised to grab a portion of the electric utility market that for decades has been dominated by Wyoming coal.

Driving this shift is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s actions to further restrict a number of industrial air pollutants, and a legal mandate to phase in rules curbing greenhouse gas emissions, which begin in January.

The article mentions that American Electric Power, one of the nation's largest electric utilities, will retire about 5,000 megawatts of coal-fire generation over the next five years as just one example.