Energy Dept keeps demanding a coal plant stay open that’s not even running

The Department of Energy issued a second “emergency” order to keep the last coal plant in Washington open for another 90 days, doing its best to raise electricity and health costs for central Washington.

But nobody wants it open – including the owner of the plant, who hasn’t operated it at all in the last 3 months since its planned closure, citing “flush” electricity supply from the state’s ample hydropower resources.

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