Seattle Times and PI.com report on coal hearing

Both the Seattle Times and Seattle PI.com are running an Associated Press story on Tuesdays packed House hearing on  HB 1825 – which would transition the Centrailia Coal Plant off of coal power by 2020 and provide economic development for Lewis County. Nancy Hirsh, Policy Director for NW Energy Coalition testified at the hearing and LeeAnne Beres, Excutive Director of Earth Ministy and member of the Coalition’s Executive Board is quoted.

Read the article online at The Seattle Times.

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Report: Washington's TransAlta Coal Plant Ranked 125th Nationally in Release of the Toxic Metal

A chorus of calls for TransAlta to reduce emissions increased in volume this morning as a Seattle-based coalition released a report detailing what it called an “extremely dangerous” level of mercury roughly one month before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose new mercury emission requirements.

Read the full article online at The Chronicle.

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The Oregonian: Charting Oregon's energy future beyond coal

Closing a coal plant is a big deal. Closing a large, modern coal plant like the one at Boardman is areally big deal. It hasn’t happened before in the Northwest — or arguably anywhere else in the United States. But today Oregon is close to an agreement to end coal burning at Boardman by no…

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