Portland General Electric and environmental groups have agreed to settle a lawsuit over Oregon’s only coal-fired power plant.
Portland General Electric and environmental groups have agreed to settle a lawsuit over Oregon’s only coal-fired power plant in Boardman.
The settlement stops short of shutting down the Boardman plant before 2020, as the Sierra Club, Columbia Riverkeeper and three other environmental groups favored.
But if a U.S. District Court judge approves it, the deal provides a court-enforceable order to shutter the plant in nine years.
Boardman is Oregon’s largest stationary source of greenhouse gases and a big contributor to haze and acid rain the Columbia River Gorge.
“For the first time, we will no longer have to rely on PGE’s gentleman’s promise” to close the plant early, said Lauren Goldberg, a staff attorney with Columbia Riverkeeper.
Read more at OregonLive.com.
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