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(The Center Square) – A state council tasked with planning large energy facility projects is struggling with recommendations made by Gov. Jay Inslee last month on the Horse Heaven Clean Energy Center to expand its scope despite environmental concerns. While Inslee in his May 25 letter emphasized the need for the project to be larger to generate more electricity through wind turbines and solar panels, some members of the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council are skeptical that it can be accomplished without threatening local historic hawk nest sites. Under the proposed site certification agre…

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