Since challenging the Department of Energy (DOE) emergency order (EO) to delay the retirement of Washington’s Centralia Unit 2 coal plant back in January, public interest groups have now filed the challenge in federal court, citing CEG’s report.
The petition for review filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals follows DOE’s denial of the group’s January request for a rehearing. That rehearing request was made in response to the DOE 90-day EO issued on Dec. 16, 2025, just two weeks before the plant’s last coal-burning unit was legally required to shut down at the end of the year.
Prepared for Earthjustice, Sierra Club, and EDF, “Resource Adequacy in the Pacific Northwest” reviews regional and national resource adequacy studies, including those relied upon by DOE, to assess whether the collective evidence indicates an imminent or emergency-level RA crisis that would justify DOE’s EO.