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U.S. Moving Toward Ban on New Coal-Fired Power Plants
Lester R. Brown
In a report compiled in early 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy listed 151 coal-fired power plants in the planning stages and talked about a resurgence in coal-fired electricity. But during 2007, 59 proposed U.S. coal-fired power plants were either refused licenses by state governments or quietly abandoned. In addition to the 59 plants that were dropped, close to 50 more coal plants are being contested in the courts, and the remaining plants will likely be challenged as they reach the permitting stage.
What began as a few local ripples of resistance to coal-fired power is quickly evolving into a national tidal wave of grassroots opposition from environmental, health, farm, and community organizations and a fast-growing number of state governments. The public at large is turning against coal. In a September 2007 national poll by the Opinion Research Corporation about which electricity source people would prefer, only 3 percent chose coal.
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2008...
The Sierra Club, the national leader on this issue, is working with hundreds of local groups to mount legal challenges in state after state. Other national groups that are actively involved include the Rainforest Action Network, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Defense. Information on the grassroots momentum to oppose coal plants is tracked on the Web site Coal Moratorium NOW!.
http://cmnow.org/
For information on contacting your local and federal representatives to stop coal:
Architecture 2030: How to Stop Coal
http://www.architecture2030.org/current_...
AUDIO
Podcast of press teleconference with Lester Brown: U.S. Moving Toward Ban on New Coal-Fired Power Plants. February 14, 2008
http://www.fenton.com/lester021408/
Lester R. Brown
In a report compiled in early 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy listed 151 coal-fired power plants in the planning stages and talked about a resurgence in coal-fired electricity. But during 2007, 59 proposed U.S. coal-fired power plants were either refused licenses by state governments or quietly abandoned. In addition to the 59 plants that were dropped, close to 50 more coal plants are being contested in the courts, and the remaining plants will likely be challenged as they reach the permitting stage.
What began as a few local ripples of resistance to coal-fired power is quickly evolving into a national tidal wave of grassroots opposition from environmental, health, farm, and community organizations and a fast-growing number of state governments. The public at large is turning against coal. In a September 2007 national poll by the Opinion Research Corporation about which electricity source people would prefer, only 3 percent chose coal.
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2008...
The Sierra Club, the national leader on this issue, is working with hundreds of local groups to mount legal challenges in state after state. Other national groups that are actively involved include the Rainforest Action Network, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Defense. Information on the grassroots momentum to oppose coal plants is tracked on the Web site Coal Moratorium NOW!.
http://cmnow.org/
For information on contacting your local and federal representatives to stop coal:
Architecture 2030: How to Stop Coal
http://www.architecture2030.org/current_...
AUDIO
Podcast of press teleconference with Lester Brown: U.S. Moving Toward Ban on New Coal-Fired Power Plants. February 14, 2008
http://www.fenton.com/lester021408/
I-Open Team said
Thanks Bill. This is excellent news about revoking lisences for new construction of coal plants.
It is also a fresh testament to the viability of civic action and democratic engagement The need to innovate many and diverse solutions is paramount.
The Midtown Brews network opportunity is to learn quickly about innovations going on now in technology, creative industries, and energy to envision new collaborative solutions together that are unlikely to happen in any separate industry alone.