PNC curtails mountaintop removal loans

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. is taking a stronger stance on energy/environmental issues. Pittsburgh’s biggest bank plans to stop construction funding of single coal-fired power plants and won’t extend credit to projects or coal producers with 25 percent or more of their production from mountaintop removal. That’s half of the MTR level PNC (NYSE:PNC) set as a limit in the past.

These measures are part of the company’s 2015 corporate responsibility report, released Monday.

Addiitionally, corporate…