This week's action alert: No More Dirty Coal!
From Union of Concerned Scientists: Coal-fired power plants are the largest U.S. source of carbon dioxide (CO2) — the primary cause of global warming — yet our country is poised to increase these emissions by building many new coal plants. Virtually all of these proposed plants lack carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which would capture a plant’s CO2 and store it underground so that it can’t contribute to global warming. However, the technology still needs testing.
Building more plants without CCS would lock us into decades of higher carbon emissions at a time when we need to significantly reduce them. Please urge Congress to oppose the construction of new coal-fired power plants unless they feature CCS technology and to limit testing of CCS to 5 to 10 demonstration plants until the technology is proven. In the meantime, the country can use readily available renewable-energy and energy-efficiency technologies to meet its near-term energy needs.
Write to your Member of Congress today!
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