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Bill would end long-standing coal exemptions and repeal coal sales-tax break; sponsors cite Centralia transition
Summary
HB 23-67 would limit statutory exemptions for coal-fired power to emissions before 2026, remove agency limits on imposing greenhouse-gas requirements, and repeal certain coal sales-and-use tax exemptions; sponsors framed the bill as completing the Centralia plant transition while business groups warned of allowance-market impacts.
Committee staff described House Bill 23-67 as three measures: (1) limit coal-exemption status to emissions occurring before 2026, (2) remove the statutory prohibition on agencies imposing additional greenhouse-gas rules on certain legacy coal facilities, and (3) repeal longstanding coal sales-and-use tax exemptions tied to plants in operation between 1969 and 1975.
Representative Joe Fitzgibbon, sponsor, described the Centralia/TransAlta memorandum of agreement…
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