PORTLAND — A 45,000-ton coal pile on the city’s waterfront that has for years been a source of complaints from neighboring residents and businesses is set to be removed by 2030 thanks to a measure adopted by the City Council on Monday.

Councilors voted unanimously to approve an order that will prohibit large coal piles in the city. The measure requires coal piles over 1 ton to be permanently covered by 2027 and removed by 2030.

A permanent covering for the pile would entail a coal storage dome with special ventilation to let heat out. That’s necessary because of the pile’s history of spontaneously catching fire, Sarah Southard, a nurse practitioner and member of Coal Free Portland, a local advocacy group, said earlier this summer.

An Act to End Fugitive Coal Dust was brought to the cou

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