Thousands Gather to Say No to Dirty Fuels
Three weeks ago, 5,000 activists gathered in Washington, D.C., to urge the President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline and protect America from tar sands oil. Last Saturday, 5,000 Americans gathered again, this time in over 100 communities in 43 states, to not only say no to KXL, but to all dirty fuels, and to urge their elected officials to support clean energy.
Here are some highlights of the National Day of Action Against Dirty Fuels.
Denver, Colorado. Photo by Matthew Reed.
Another One Bites the Dust
Starting in 2005, the Sierra Club and Senator Harry Reid began working together to keep three coal plants from being built in Nevada. Two years later the Sierra Club heard about NV Energy’s plan to keep Reid Gardner open for at least another decade and to store more coal ash at the plant. That was when the Sierra Club joined the Moapa Band of Paiutes in fighting for their right to clean air, clean water and good health for their community.
NV Energy has announced that it will close three of its four coal-fired units at the Reid Gardner power plant in southern Nevada by the end of this year, and the fourth by 2019. The Sierra Club has worked for years with the Moapa Band of Paiutes to retire heavily polluting Reid Gardner, which sits next door to the Moapa Paiute reservation. Soon the tribe will build a 200-megawatt solar array -- the first commercial solar project on Native American lands -- from which the city of Los Angeles will be purchasing enough energy to power over 110,000 homes.
Read about this major victory for the climate, clean air, and renewable energy.
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