No New Dirty Coal

How You Can Help

Gov. Rendell is expected to unveil a global warming plan for Pennsylvania in the near future, and we want to demonstrate public support for the governor to unveil an ambitious plan that achieves the pollution reductions scientists say are necessary.  Send an email to Gov. Rendell today to let him know you support a strong global warming plan.

Brief Summary

In order to avoid the worst consequences of global warming, we need to drastically reduce global warming pollution levels in Pennsylvania and nationwide. Unfortunately, the Texas utility TXU had planned to build up to five new coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania, which would each create roughly 7 million tons of new global warming pollution annually.

To put this in perspective, we'd have to take 6 million cars off the road to offset the new global warming pollution that five new TXU coal-fired power plants would create.

Given that global warming is the most pressing environmental problem facing us today, we can't afford to allow TXU to make things worse by drastically increasing global warming pollution levels. PennEnvironment urged Governor Rendell to prevent TXU from constructing their proposed plants, so that Pennsylvania and the country can continue working to tackle the problem of global warming. TXU's February 2007 announcement appears to indicate that Pennsylvania dodged this particular threat, but we will remain on the look-out for other proposed coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania. We're also urging the governor to help put Pennsylvania on the right track by issuing an executive order recognizing the need to cut global warming pollution by 20% by 2020 and 80% by 2050.