SEATTLE (AP) — The House has overwhelmingly passed a measure that would gradually shut down Washington largest coal-fired power plant.
The bill, which the Senate approved last month, would transition TransAlta’s plant in Centralia away from coal-burning by 2025.
House lawmakers made mostly technical changes to Senate Bill 5769 before passing it Monday. It now goes back to the Senate for approval.
TransAlta, state officials and environmental groups negotiated a deal last month that would shut down one of the plant’s two boilers by 2020 and phase out coal-burning by 2025. The Canada-based company had been under legislative pressure this session to shut down the facility as early as 2015.
