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Utah Power Plant Affected by Regulatory Change

The Deseret Power Coooperative's Bonanza power plant near Vernal, Utah
Dan Bammes
The Deseret Power Coooperative's Bonanza power plant near Vernal, Utah

By Elizabeth Wynn Johnson / Yanmei Xie

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Washington, DC – Deseret Power operates a coal-fired power plant about 30 miles southeast of Vernal on the eastern edge of Utah. The Bonanza plant supplies power to municipal utilities and rural electric co-ops across the state. But its plans for expanding operations there have run into the kind of regulatory obstacles that are troubling coal-fired plants across the country -- mainly, what to do about the carbon dioxide coming out of their smokestacks. Elizabeth Wynn Johnson has the story from our Capitol News Connection. (Yanmei Xie contributed to this story.)

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