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For generations, children
have been threatened with coal in their stocking
as punishment for being naughty—but giving kids
coal fired power plants is a punishment that can
last 40 years or more.
Today, coal provides about
half of our nation’s electricity—at great cost
to our health, land, water, and climate. Coal
power is currently America’s single biggest
source of global warming pollution and
brain-damaging mercury emissions. In addition,
coal mining pollutes our drinking water and is
an extremely dangerous occupation.
Now, utilities across the
country are pushing to build more than 150 new
coal-fired power plants. Most of these plants
would use old “pulverized coal”
technology—designed to last at least 40-50
years. But it’s not too late to tell
Congress our kids deserve better than
coal.
Ask
your members of Congress to start the
new year fresh by promoting energy
efficiency and clean, renewable
sources of electricity like wind and
solar. Send an email to your senators and
representative today.
sample
email:
Dear Senators and
Representative,
I'm writing to urge you not to punish
our kids with coal—but to start the
new year clean by promoting renewable
sources of energy like wind and solar.
More than 150 new coal
power plants have been proposed nationwide.
Almost all of these plants would use old,
pulverized coal technology—releasing
unacceptably high levels of mercury emissions
and global warming pollution into the air we
breathe.
These power plants harm our
health, land, water, and climate—imposing
tremendous costs on our children, and on their
children.
On average, coal power
plants emit as much global warming pollution in
one year as 600,000 cars. Unlike a car, however,
these plants will be polluting for 40 to 50
years into the future. Please don't punish our
kids with coal—they deserve better.
Promoting energy
efficiency, and clean energy alternatives such
as wind, solar, and bioenergy, are effective
ways of meeting our growing energy needs. Please
start the New Year, and the new Congress, off on
the right foot—support clean, renewable energy
for our future.
Sincerely, [your name]
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