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After nearly 15 years of planning, the plant had been scheduled to shut down Dec. 31

Earthjustice’s Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act legal work was an integral part of the campaign to help bring TransAlta to the negotiating table.

Coordinated rallies statewide take on dirty coal plant

Ecology urged to require stronger pollution treatment up to modern standards

Public health and national parks not protected

Conservation groups work to get stronger pollution controls

Biggest polluter in state getting free pass to dump mercury, other pollutants

A subsidiary of TransAlta Corporation, a Canadian company, owns an old, dirty coal power plant in Centralia, Washington. The plant had never had to control mercury (a potent neurotoxin) or global warming pollutants. That made it the largest source of these pollutants in the state—10 percent of Washington’s total greenhouse gas emissions came from just…

TransAlta’s dirty coal plant threatens people and national parks

Washington’s largest source of global warming, haze and mercury pollution targeted