Dominion Energy plans to shut down the last units – one coal, one oil – at its Salem Harbor waterfront generating station in Salem, Mass., and a settlement in a federal lawsuit means the end of coal at the facility built in 1951.
The suit, filed in 2010, claimed environmental violations. Dominion has said it planned to shut down the plant in 2014, the Salem News reported.
That is not to say that no power will come from Salem Harbor again, however.
"That possibility was raised last week when a New Jersey company, Footprint Power, confirmed a report in The Salem News that it is negotiating with Dominion to build a natural gas plant here," the paper reported.
