This story was originally published by Washington State Standard . Electric utilities across the Pacific Northwest are fuming ...

Electric utilities across the Pacific Northwest are fuming that their customers might be saddled with the costs of a ...

Washington state’s last coal plant, which was scheduled to close at the end of the year in Centralia, will be converted to burn natural gas. Power generation company TransAlta announced Wednesday the ...

The coal plant has produced no electric power in the previous ‘emergency’ periods the Department of Energy claimed it was ...

The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday said the order to keep the last coal plant in Washington state online is needed to ...

Washington state's last remaining coal-fired power plant hasn't generated meaningful electricity since January. The Centralia power plant, in Centralia, Washington, has produced power for no one, ...

Just days away from closure and a $600-million remake as a gas-powered facility, an independent power producer-owned coal-fired power plant in Washington state is ordered by the Trump administration ...

An undated aerial view of TransAlta’s coal-fired power plant in Centralia, Washington. (Photo courtesy of Washington Department of Ecology) The Washington state attorney general’s office and ...

OLYMPIA — The Washington House of Representatives on Thursday approved a new coal tax that targets a single company. It’s meant to thwart a surprise move by the Trump administration to keep the last ...

The Seattle Times’ Climate Lab explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by the Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim and Birte ...

The steam plume from the TransAlta coal power plant outside Centralia, Wash. could formerly be seen from 30 miles away on cold, clear days. But it’s been absent since mid-December when the plant shut ...