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What Is At Stake With The Closing Of The Navajo Generating Station?

Navajo Generating Station
Andrew Bernier/KJZZ
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The Navajo Generating Station near Page, Arizona.

Hundreds of coal miners and their families rallied outside of the Arizona state capitol Wednesday to protest the impending closing of the Navajo Generating Station, a coal plant on the Navajo Nation near Page in northern Arizona.

But Salt River Project, the plant’s owner, said saving it will take the appearance of a “unicorn.”

There’s a lot at stake here — from jobs to the future of energy production and the environmental impacts that has.

Ryan Randazzo covers energy issues for the Arizona Republic.

Steve Goldstein was a host at KJZZ from 1997 to 2022.