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By - Associated Press - Friday, March 12, 2021 FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - The coal-powered Four Corners Generation Station in New Mexico will limit its operations starting in 2023, the station’s owners announced on Friday. The plant’s five co-owners agreed to shut down one of the facility’s two generators for seven months each year beginning in the fall of 2023. The other generator will operate year-round. TOP STORIES The proposal could reduce the facility’s carbon emissions by up to 25% every year. Arizona Public Service Co., which owns a majority of the plant, had already pledged to transition away from carbon sources by 2050 and close the Four Corners plant by 2031.