Power Past Coal
The Power Past Coal campaign needs to experience an avalanche of groups signing up for local actions and getting connected as it moves toward actions around the country at the end of the first 100 days of the Obama administration at the end of April.
A report from Bill McKibben at 350.org
Largest anti-coal action yet in the United States took place on March 2nd: Thousands and thousands of people flooded the streets around the Capitol Hill power plant.
Dr. James Hansen talks with Charlie Rose
James Hansen talks with Charlie Rose about Coal, Sea Level Rise, and 4th Generation Nuclear Power Plants – A must See Video
Bill McKibben to be among demonstrators in Washington DC against coal-fired power plants
On March 2, environmentalist Bill McKibben will join demonstrators who plan to march on a coal-fired power plant in Washington D.C. In this article for Yale Environment 360, he explains why he’s ready to go to jail to protest the continued burning of coal.
Global Warming Solutions for Governments
To stop Global Warming, we must close down all coal-fired power plants, end all fossil fuel subsidies and end all corporate campaign financing.
James Hansen at UK Parliamentary Committee
Video of James Hansen’s important testimony on The Scientific basis for carbon reduction targets before a UK Parliamentary committee
The Exernalized Costs of Coal Are Still Costs
Externalized costs of coal are costs, and thus part of the “economic side of the story.” Even if they are inadequately or incompletely measured, even if they are not incorporated into indicators like GDP, they are not ghost costs. Someone pays them.
US Sierra Club Takes on Big Coal, and Wins
Environmentalists and lawyers representing industry groups said the EPA Environmental Appeals Board ruling puts in question permits of perhaps as many as 100 coal plants
