Washington’s largest climate polluter shuts down despite federal order
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The Pacific Northwest’s largest pollution source has shut down, and Washington state officials want to keep it that way.

The “emegency” was not enough profits for the fossil fuels industry, rather than a need for the electricity an ancient coal-burning power plant might generate, and the Trump administration plan has been to prevent all coal-burning power plants from shutting down — even if they’re already broken, don’t work, aren’t needed, or are simply more expensive than wind, solar, and utility-scale batteries.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    8 hours ago

    They’re converting to natural gas at any rate. The facility just doesn’t have coal to continue running because the plan all along was to shut down and convert. This order to stay open did fuck all except inject delays into bureaucracy.