"2 Colorado Coal-Fired Power Units To Close In Clean-Air Deal"

"DENVER — One coal-fired power plant in Colorado will shut down and part of a second plant will stop operating under an agreement that will make deep cuts in air pollution but cost at least 90 jobs over the next decade, officials said Thursday.

The Nucla Station power plant in southwestern Colorado and its coal supplier, the New Horizon Mine, will close by the end of 2022. A total of 93 people work at the plant and mine, and those jobs will eventually be eliminated, said Lee Boughey, a spokesman for Tri-State Generation and Transmission, which owns both.

Unit 1 of the coal-fired Craig Station power plant will shut down by the end of 2025, but two other units will keep operating with new technology to reduce pollution, Boughey said. ...

The agreement will cut emissions from the state's coal-fired power plants by about 9 percent, said Will Allison of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment."

Dan Elliott reports for the Associated Press September 1, 2016.