Bill by Rep. Liias would make TransAlta phase out coal by 2015
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Katie Schmidt
The Olympian
February 02, 2011
Rep. Marko Liias wants Washington to stop using coal, and he wants it to stop soon. “It frankly doesn’t fit our commitment at the state level to clean, renewable energy,” said Liias of coal-fired energy.
WA Rep. Marko Liias
Rep. Marko Liias wants Washington to stop using coal, and he wants it to stop soon.
The Mukilteo Democrat introduced a bill Wednesday that would require the TransAlta power plant in Centralia, Washington’s only coal-fired electricity generator, to start using cleaner energy sources by Dec. 31, 2015, ten years earlier than it would have to under a 2009 executive order from Gov. Chris Gregoire.
