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Wateree power plant targeted for closure. How many jobs are on the chopping block?
Sammy Fretwell, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Feb. 24 Dominion Energy plans to close a 51-year-old Columbia-area power plant that has employed generations of workers but also has polluted groundwater and the Wateree River while burning coal to make electricity.
Company plans show that two other coal-burning power plants in Berkeley and Orangeburg counties also would close in the next decade, a change that would effectively end South Carolina s production of power through coal.
Air pollution from coal plants is a leading cause of man-made climate change. If the Dominion plan becomes final, all of Dominion s once robust fleet of coal-fired power plants would be closed by 2030. Santee Cooper and Duke Energy already have closed or announced plans to close coal plants in South Carolina. ....

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