Quit Coal Blog
Authored by Gary Cook, Greenpeace International
This week, after hundreds of thousands of Apple customers and Greenpeace supporters asked the company to use clean energy instead of dirty coal, it announced a significant investment in local renewable energy to power its data center in North Carolina, US.
0 commentsToday, an indictment has come down from a Marion County grand jury concerning Duke Energy's improper relationship with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission's ("IURC") former chairman David Lott Hardy. The indictment states that Hardy allegedly allowed IURC administrative law judge Scott Storms to preside over cases involving Duke Energy Corp. despite the fact that Storms was talking with Duke about a job.
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Last Thursday, as part of 100 Actions for 100% Clean Energy, seven Michigan State University students held a sit-in at their president's office demanding MSU shut down its coal plant and transition to 100% clean energy.
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**UPDATE** Monday October 24, 2011 - Check out this cool video of the action.
The three students have all been released. More updates on the administration's response soon to come.
**UPDATE**
Three students arrested at Michigan State University Sit-in.
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On Friday, the House of Representatives pushed through HR 2273, legislation which continues the same non-existent regulation of toxic coal ash and yet again undermines the EPA’s ability to protect our public health.
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Congress is voting on a bill this Friday that would leave our water sources completely unprotected. Our streams, lakes and rivers are being polluted on a massive scale by toxic coal ash leaking from unregulated, poorly constructed ash ponds.
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In the media, coal is often portrayed at its source and we hear mostly about the ill effects of coal on mining communities.
While the impacts of coal mining on these places is deeply destructive, the toxic pollution that poisons the air and water during the generating stage of coal’s life cycle, in the towns and communities where coal is burned across the country, can be just as devastating.
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For the current Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH), American democracy is simpler than representing the people who vote for him. Instead of fighting for jobs and health in his district, Boehner will just spend money to polish his image in 2012. He has made a decision to collect vast sums of money from industry polluters outside his district who couldn't care less about the 8th district of Ohio.
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