Reuters: EU plans for curbing emissions will hand utilities windfall profits of up to 71 billion euros ($111.5 billion) between 2008 and 2012 even as they burn highly polluting coal, environmental group WWF said on Monday. Power companies in five European Union countries — Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland, which are among the biggest coal burners — stand to earn windfalls totalling between 23 and 71 billion euros during the second phase of the bloc’s Emissions Trading Scheme, WWF …