PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland General Electric’s latest proposal would close Oregon’s only coal-fired generating plant by 2020, at least 20 years earlier than anticipated.
The Oregonian newspaper reports the Department of Environmental Quality on Friday reopened its comment period on its regional haze rule to consider PGE’s latest proposal.
DEQ’s Andy Ginsburg says until this offer, PGE would have retained the option to install $500 million in pollution controls and keep operating through at least 2040.
Boardman is the state’s largest generator of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution that hampers visibility from Mount Hood to the Columbia River Gorge to Hells Canyon.
