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Evers says Trump order to keep coal plants open is costing ratepayers $117 million

The Schahfer Generating Station in Indiana is among aging Midwestern coal-fired power plants the Trump administration has ordered to keep operating. Photo by Chris Light, March 4, 2021. Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schaffer_2105.jpg

A Trump administration push to keep aging Midwestern coal-fired power plants open is set to cost Wisconsin ratepayers some $117 million, Gov. Tony Evers wrote in a letter protesting the directive. Evers wrote yesterday that the administration’s directive to continue operating the J.H. Campbell Power Plant in Michigan and the Schahfer and F.B. Culley power plants in Indiana are “needlessly increasi...

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