Navajo Generating Station shut down in 2019 and is now being dismantled. The Colorado River water that cooled the plant is part of a broader legal impasse.
Coal-state economic development groups, labor leaders and environmentalists are asking President Joe Biden's administration to fund a “just transition" from coal to renewable energy.
The demise of coal-fired power plants in Arizona and Kentucky shows how the president, despite promises to restore jobs, failed to counter the forces decimating the industry.
For almost a half-century, the giant coal plant here was the economic heartbeat of the Navajo Nation. Now it looms silently over the desert after its great boilers were extinguished for the last time in November.
The Navajo Generating Station coal-fired power plant near Page burned the last of its coal Monday, marking the end of the plant's 45-year run, Salt River Project announced.
