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MacGregor CampbellA contractor demolished the towering smokestack at Portland General Electric鈥檚 shuttered coal-fired power plant near Boardman on Thursday morning, heralding the end of the era of coal-fired power generation in Oregon. -
Ninjanabe/Wikimedia CommonsOregon's last coal-burning power plant is due to shut down in four years, but the state still gets power from out-of-state plants that burn coal. The鈥�
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