Four Corners Generating Station

In 2020, Arizona Public Service announced plans to decommission the Four Corners Generating Station, leaving no prospect for the mine and the railroad.

[4][5] The Four Corners Generating Station was constructed on property that was leased from the Navajo Nation in a renegotiated agreement that will expire in 2041.

Apparently the astronauts of the Mercury program reported that they could see two human-constructed things from space: one was the Great Wall of China and the other was the "plume streaming from Four Corners Power Plant.

After a lawsuit by a coalition of environmental organizations, the plant owners and the plaintiffs reached a consent decree in 2015.

[10] In January 2020, Arizona Public Service announced it would be decommissioning the Four Corners Generating Station by the end of 2031, seven years ahead of the originally scheduled closure date of 2038.

Four Corners Power Plant (by Morgan Lake) with Chaco River (left) San Juan River (right and background) confluence at Shiprock, New Mexico ; aerial view looking west-northwest toward Four Corners.
Aerial view of the Navajo Mine, about 12 miles south, which supplies coal to the Four Corners Generating Station