A heads up on new power plants
THERE'S a disturbing development on the horizon in Pennsylvania's effort to tackle global warming. A Texas-based utility, TXU, wants to build at least two new coal-fired power plants in this state, each of which would create about 7 million tons of global-warming pollution annually.
THERE'S a disturbing development on the horizon in Pennsylvania's effort to tackle global warming. A Texas-based utility, TXU, wants to build at least two new coal-fired power plants in this state, each of which would create about 7 million tons of global-warming pollution annually.
To put this in perspective, we'd have to take 2.5 million Pennsylvania cars off the road to offset the new global-warming pollution that TXU's two plants will create. Furthermore, this increase in emissions would completely wipe out gains from policies already adopted in Pennsylvania and neighboring states to cut this pollution.
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 emissions levels.
PennEnvironment urges Gov. 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.
Dave Gifford
PennEnvironment