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"Rising From The Ashes, A Buffalo Suburb Ends Its Dependence On Coal"

"Sixteen months ago, the coal-fired Huntley Generating Station, which sits on the banks of the Niagara River, stopped producing power for first time since World War I.

Erie County lost its largest air and water polluter. But the town of Tonawanda, a working class Buffalo suburb 13 miles downstream of America’s most storied waterfalls, also lost its biggest taxpayer.

The impact of Huntley’s decade-long slowdown — and finally shutdown — hit this upstate New York community like a punch to the gut."

Elizabeth McGowan reports for Grist July 11, 2017.

Source: Grist, 07/12/2017