is slated to close next year due to costly Environmental Protection Agency regulations limiting mercury emissions from coal plants.The Carbon Power Plant’s location inside a narrow canyon doesn’t give plant operators enough room to install the necessary pollution control technology required by the EPA
. Therefore the plant will have to be closed and 74 workers will lose their jobs.“The way rules are being crafted there is a regulatory environment
that will cause a transition away from coal because of air-quality concerns,” said Dave Eskelsen, spokesman for Rocky Mountain Power — the utility that runs the plant. “But that transition is going to be reasonably gradual. We expect to be able to operate our coal plants to the end of their regulatory lives.”More
Coal miners are probably union...and voted for the current 'regime'.
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considered water limitations out west, I'm sure there are plenty who appreciate a bit less mercury potentially coming out the faucet.
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