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.