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20 September 2007 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a permit to add a new unit to the coal-fired Bonanza electric plant on Ute tribal land in Utah's eastern high country. The permit is among the first decisions of its type for the EPA since a Supreme Court ruling last winter that said the agency had the authority to limit carbon dioxide. In approving the Bonanza application, EPA required no curbs on carbon dioxide.
Utah and other Western states recently signed a regional agreement to cut greenhouse gases 15 percent by 2020. Under the regional goal, the state must cut about 10.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from its emissions. If the second Bonanza unit is built the state reportedly would have to find an additional 1.8 million metric tons to eliminate. The existing Bonanza plant generates about 400 MW of electricity. The new unit would turn waste coal into an additional 86 MW. Deseret Power Electric Cooperative owns the plant.
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