Xcel needs new air permit for Pueblo’s Comanche station even as it plans to shutter the coal-fired plant

Xcel needs new air permit for Pueblo’s Comanche station even as it plans to shutter the coal-fired plant

If all goes as planned, Xcel Energy is applying for its last federal air-pollution permit for a coal-fired power plant in Colorado. But environmentalists worry that is a big “if” as long as the Trump administration is in power, and now they are asking the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to include the Comanche Generating Station’s projected closure date of Jan. 1, 2031, in the Pueblo power plant’s latest Title V air permit. …