Centralia

As we reported earlier today, another green priority, a Sierra Club effort to end a $4 million tax exemption for TransAlta, which operates a coal-powered steam plant in Centralia, is also on the rocks.

Top Environmental Priority Could be in Jeopardy in Olympia « PubliCola 2010

TransAlta Coal Plant in Centralia is Ranked the 13th highest emitter of CO2 out of 50 coal plants in the U.S.

Among Other Corporate Tax Breaks That Survived in 2010: $4 Million for Greenhouse Gas Polluter « PubliCola 2010

We should be putting the Boiler Maker Union members to work as Wind Turbine Techicians ... or solar techs ... and Close down the TransAlta Coal plant in Centralia!

Among Other Corporate Tax Breaks That Survived in 2010: $4 Million for Greenhouse Gas Polluter « PubliCola 2010

Fitzgibbon also wants to end tax exemptions for big polluters (like Canadian power company TransAlta, which has a major coal plant in Centralia and a major exemption — $4 million a year — from Olympia).

Joe Fitzgibbon: Young Technocrat Has Eyes on Olympia « PubliCola 2010

Today, about eight people live in Centralia, where the fire still burns.

Superman saved fictional town, but the real one wasn’t so lucky | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

When the coal plant in Centralia was given a tax break part of the deal was to keep 600 people employed in the local coal mine.

We Don’t Have A Great Track Record « PubliCola 2010

We should be putting the Boiler Maker Union members to work as Wind Turbine Techicians ... or solar techs ... and Close down the TransAlta Coal plant in Centralia!

Among Other Corporate Tax Breaks That Survived in 2010: $4 Million for Greenhouse Gas Polluter « PubliCola 2010

But thanks to Reagan, the funding dried up and the fund never had the ability to address anything other than the deep mine fire in Centralia PA.

Think Progress » Mining lobbyist: ‘The president has parked his tanks on our front lawn.’ 2010

There's a Michoacan-style restaurant in Centralia, WA (La Tarasca) that doesn't serve chips, but serves home-made carrots en escabeche.

Cool off with hot jalapeno pickles | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

During this year’s legislative session, we reported on state Sen. Eric Oemig’s (D-45) failed efforts to kill a $4-$5 million tax break for TransAlta’s coal-powered steam plant in Centralia, the biggest single source greenhouse gas polluter in the state.

Environmentalists See Bad Trend in Closed-Door Talks with Polluter « PubliCola 2010