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Granite Shore Power, which owns Merrimack Station, says the exemption from the federal government means they won’t need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with new regulations months before closing down.

The plant passed a long-overdue emissions test for one of its coal-fired generating units, but still hasn’t passed a test for the other. That raises questions about how the plant will run this winter, a time when the region’s grid looks to fossil fuels as backup power.

The plant, in Bow, has not completed scheduled retests multiple times, most recently in early December.

The case centered around the hot water that the Merrimack Generating Station puts into the Merrimack River, and how it affects fish and other aquatic life.

Dos días después de un tiroteo masivo en Lewiston, el hombre responsable fue encontrado muerto. Lewiston organizó una vigilia en honor a las víctimas. Activistas le pidieron a los dueños de la planta de carbón en Bow que dejen de quemar combustibles fósiles.

Eight people were arrested for criminal trespassing, after paddling kayaks and canoes in the Merrimack River near the plant.

The case was dropped after the activist's lawyer challenged the law's constitutionality.

The owners of the coal plant have not indicated any plans to shut down operations.

New England’s last running coal plant, the Merrimack Generating Station in Bow, could face new emissions limitations and new incentives to shut down.

One of the protestors said the demonstration was also about the rights of rail workers, who have called for better working conditions.