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Beyond Coal: Retire 1/3 of nation's coal plants by 2020

Not only is coal burning responsible for one third of US carbon emissions--the main contributor to climate disruption--but it is also making us sick, leading to as many as 13,000 premature deaths every year and more than $100 billion in annual health costs. The Beyond Coal campaign's main objective is to replace dirty coal with clean energy by mobilizing grassroots activists in local communities to advocate for the retirement of old and outdated coal plants and to prevent new coal plants from being built. Our goals include:

Retiring one-third of the nation's more than 500 coal plants by 2020
Replacing the majority of retired coal plants with clean energy solutions such as wind, solar, and geothermal
Keeping coal in the ground in places like Appalachia and Wyoming's Powder River Basin

Source: Sierra Club website, www.sierraclub.org , Nov 24, 2012

Fight the Koch brothers' agenda for oil

The Koch brothers inherited a business from their fathers and grew it into a conglomerate to where it is the 2nd largest privately owned company in the country with annual revenues approaching $100 billion. The holdings include forest products giant Georgia-Pacific, oil refineries, ethanol, and pipeline building.

[NJ Gov. Chris] Christie pulled out of the 10-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program (RGGI) several months after meeting with David Koch. Critics saw a pattern developing. Christie scaled back renewable energy goals, scaled back rebates for solar panels at residences, vetoed a bill that would have banned frocking, a process of using pressurized fluid to release gas and petroleum for extraction. "All these policies come directly from the Koch brothers agenda," said the Sierra Club.

Source: Rise to Power, by B. Ingle & M. Symons, p.240-241 , Jun 5, 2012

Sierra Club on Energy

Phase out nuclear power

The Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout, Sierra Club of Canada, Energy Probe and other organizations have long advocated a phase out of nuclear power both on the basis of environmental considerations such as the release of radioactive materials and the disposition of nuclear waste, and on the basis of cost. Source: Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout, Sierra Club of Canada , Aug 13, 1997

Sierra Club on Global Warming

Climate change is an established fact

Global climate change is by now an established fact. Virtually every reputable scientific organization that has studied the problem is on record as being in agreement with this statement. If we want to avoid big problems in the century ahead, it is clear that the world must shift away from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels to less polluting and more sustainable sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal. Source: Ozark Sierran, Jim Rhodes, Are Energy Taxes a Good idea? , Mar 30, 2000

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