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target of 'Beyond Coal' campaign The Pacific Northwest has made
headlines for its efforts to become the first coal-free region
in the United States. Washington’s last coal-fired power plant,
in Centralia, is scheduled to be shut down by 2025. Yet one of
the region’s largest utilities still derives more than a third
of its power from coal. Puget Sound Energy, which serves more
than a million customers in 11 counties, is a target of the
Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. Despite the utility’s
profile as a leader in the development of wind farms and other
clean energy, it still gets about 35% of its power from coal-
fired power plants, chief among them, the Colstrip Generating
Station in eastern Montana. “It’s an old, very, very dirty pant
– the biggest source of climate pollution in the western United
States,”says Josh Nelson is with CREDO Action, which has joined
forces with the Sierra Club on this issue. “The pollution from
this plant has been m