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Rocky Mountain Power's future with coal and more on Behind the Headlines

In this Sept. 8, 2015 photo, a natural gas rig pumps away in the foreground of the coal-fired Huntington Power Plant west of Huntington, Utah. PacifiCorp, which owns the plant, has reversed its plan to retire it early.
Al Hartmann
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The Salt Lake Tribune via AP
In this Sept. 8, 2015 photo, a natural gas rig pumps away in the foreground of the coal-fired Huntington Power Plant west of Huntington, Utah. PacifiCorp, which owns the plant, has reversed its plan to retire it early.

In a climate setback, Rocky Mountain Power now says it plans to burn coal in Utah until 2042. How health care shortages affect rural Utahns — and what the state is doing to help. And Salt Lake City says the owner must restore the partly demolished Fifth Ward Latter-day Saint meetinghouse.

Tribune reporters Tim Fitzpatrick, Megan Banta and Tony Semerad, join host UPR’s Tom Williams to talk about the week’s top stories.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.