The Colorado Attorney General’s Office, Sierra Club and other groups are challenging the Department of Energy’s recent emergency order to keep the Craig 1 coal plant operating past its long-planned shutdown date.
The outcome could have impacts in Fort Collins because the plant is partially owned by Platte River Power Authority, which is city-owned and could bear costs associated with keeping it open.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office, in a news release announcing his challenge of the order, says there is no emergency justifying the department’s action…