Cold weather drives New England plants to burn coal, oil

UPDATED 7:25 AM EST, January 25, 2013
As cold weather in New England constrains natural gas supplies, grid operators asked power plants that run on oil and coal to start up in case of an emergency gas shortage, Bloomberg reports.
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