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A demolition contractor on Thursday imploded the towering smokestack and 19-story boiler building at Portland General Electric’s shuttered coal-fired power plant near Boardman, bringing a symbolic close to the era of coal-fired power generation in Oregon. Imported electricity generated from coal still flows through transmission wires across the Pacific Northwest, but that looks to be winding down soon, too.
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“It’s the change we have been waiting for.” That’s the response from the Sierra Club to President Obama’s speech on climate change. A major part of his…
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It was one of the biggest outpourings of environmental activism that Seattle has seen since the WTO protests more than a decade ago.At Freeway Park, a…
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The average coal-fired power plant spews out more than a million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year.Wouldn't it be great if that greenhouse gas…
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It's 14 years off in the future. But a compromise deal will shut down the Northwest's largest coal-fired power plant near Centralia. Legislation is headed…