 From flickr.com/photos/99673917@N00/11630824975/: Homestead Smokestacks: Homestead Smokestacks (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | "The war on coal is not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by rapacious polluters. It's real and it's relentless. Over the past five years, it has killed a coal-fired power plant every 10 days. It has quietly transformed the U.S. electric grid and the global climate debate. Beyond Coal is the most extensive, expensive and effective campaign in the Sierra Club's 123-year history, and maybe the history of the environmental movement. It's gone largely unnoticed amid the furor over the Keystone pipeline and President Barack Obama's efforts to regulate carbon, but it's helped retire more than one third of America's coal plants since its launch in 2010, one dull hearing at a time. The industry and its supporters use "war on coal" as shorthand for a ferocious assault by a hostile White House, but the real war on coal is a gueriila war." |
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