Akron Beacon Journal: What happens in forests around the world will have a big effect on Ohio, its coal-burning utilities and their electric customers. Avoiding the destruction of the global forest should be a critical strategy to fight global warming and is one of the most cost-effective and needed ways for American businesses to assist, according to participants in a recent daylong conference sponsored by the Nature Conservancy and American Electric Power. ”Forests have a critical role to play in …