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Utah's oldest coal plant retired in face of new EPA standards

2015-04-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Salt Lake Tribune: The turbines of Utah's oldest coal-fired power plant have stopped spinning. Rocky Mountain Power took its 60-year-old Carbon Power Plant offline Wednesday, one day before more strict federal mercury-pollution rules went into effect. The plant's age and location in a tight canyon a few miles up the Price River from Helper made retrofitting the two-unit, 172-megawatt station a losing proposition, according to company spokesman Dave Eskelsen. The utility company will spend the next two years...

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