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URGENT ACTION! Demand CEC Reject New Coal Plant in California!<br>
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California has made great strides to wean
itself off dirty coal.
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Last year, Los Angeles announced it would be
coal free. Other utilities are going coal
free, too, and California is on pace to
eliminate coal entirely over the next ten
years. The efforts to ditch coal have
ramifications for the country: as California
goes, so goes the nation. </p>
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<strong>Now, all that progress to move
California beyond coal is at risk, as the
California Energy Commission considers
building a new coal power plant outside
Bakersfield, a region with some of the
dirtiest air in the country.</strong> </p>
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Energy Commission (CEC) now and urge
them to reject this dangerous proposal.</a></strong>
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This new coal plant would bring in coal from
a strip mine in New Mexico by diesel train
to Kern County. The coal would be trucked to
the plant (300 trucks per day!) where it
would be turned into gas to power the plant.
The project would use unproven, risky
technology to attempt to capture 90% of the
CO2 and inject it into the ground in a
neighboring oil field, helping push out the
remaining oil from the depleted field (you
have to love the irony of capturing carbon
just so we can burn more). </p>
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<strong>Even if the project only emits 10%
of the CO2 produced, the project is so
massive and coal-intensive, it would be
one of the 60 largest sources of carbon
pollution in the state!
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Tell the CEC that dirty coal has no
place in California’s energy mix!</a></strong>
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The coal industry is bending over backwards
to call this a clean project, but the truth
is anything but. The project would increase
the dangerous pollutants that cause asthma,
emphysema, and even heart attacks in a
region that already can’t come close to
meeting the standards of the Clean Air Act.
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<p>The project has issues beyond just dirty
air. It will suck up 2.4 billion gallons of
water each year, using water that would
otherwise be used by local farmers. </p>
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target="_blank">You can stop it. You can
keep dirty coal out of California.
Contact the CEC today.</a></strong>
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Thanks for all you do to protect the
environment,<br>
<br>
Evan Gillespie<br>
My Generation Campaign<br>
Sierra Club<br>
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