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Colorado air regulators backtrack on closing 3 coal plants
By: Associated Press
and last updated 2020-12-20 15:35:00-05
DENVER (AP) â Colorado air regulators have backtracked on a plan to close three coal plants by 2029, a move that has left environmental groups disappointed.
The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission made its unanimous decision Wednesday to reverse plans after lobbying from utility companies. Commissioner Jana Milford said the agencyâs November decision had been made based on incomplete information.
The three plants that were to be closed by 2029 were the Craig Unit 3, the Platte River Power Authorityâs Rawhide plant and the Ray D. Nixon Plant, the Colorado Sun reported. Many utility companies have pledged to close coal-powered plants by 2030, but that promise is not bound by law.
Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission said issues around closing plants a year early were too complex
The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission, at the urging of utility companies, did a regulatory two-step on Wednesday, rescinding the order for early closure of three coal-fired power plants that it issued last month.
The November decision, made as part of the state’s plan to reduce regional haze at national parks, was based on incomplete information, Commissioner Jana Milford said.
“It didn’t fit in[ the] regional haze [plan] as it might have,” Commissioner Elise Jones said.
The pollutants creating regional haze are nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and soot. The commission had sought to lock-in reductions of carbon dioxide, a colorless gas that is the main contributor to climate change.