Western states, utilities advance low-carbon power goals

April 25, 2019
State legislatures and utilities throughout the West are advancing measures to curtail carbon emissions from the power sector, including plans in Washington, Nevada and New Mexico that would sharply limit coal and even gas-fired generation in the coming decades. In the Pacific Northwest, the Washington state legislature on April 22 gave final approval to a bill, S.B. 5116, requiring utilities to shutter the state's only coal plant by 2025 and remove all gas-fired power from their retail loads by 2045,...


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