Elizabeth McGowan

Elizabeth McGowan is a Washington, D.C.-based energy and environment reporter.

A Working-Class Buffalo Suburb Retired a Coal Plant the Right Way

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.

July 11, 2017