If you're anything like us, every Tuesday at 12 Noon, you have your radio dial or your internet browser tuned to KYRS Thin Air Community Radio for "Earth Matters Now" - a wonderful 30-minute environmental news program hosted by Argyl Baukol of Living Green with SNAP, and Mike Peterson, executive director of The Lands Council.  If you missed it last week, you missed an interesting segment where they rebroadcast a report that was first heard on Green Acre Radio about the possibility of the Northwest being the first area in the nation to go "coal free".  Understandably a lofty aspiration given the current financial market and political envrionment, but an intriguing aspiration nonetheless. 

In the report, host Martha Baskin talks about the TransAlta Corporation's coal plant in Centralia, Washington, the General Electric owned Boardman power plant in Boardman, Oregon, and the Colstrip power plant in Colstrip, Montana as 3 of the 13 coal fired power plants that account for 23% of the region's electric needs, but 87% of the power systems climate pollution.  Have a listen for yourself - click HERE.  And don't forget to tune into "Earth Matters Now every Tuesday from 12 - 12:30 on KYRS Thin Air Community Radio - your radio station. 

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