The Dirty Truth About Coal!
Fact: Coal is one of the most polluting sources of energy available, jeopardizing our health and our environment.
We owe it to our children to consider smarter, cleaner, healthier options for meeting our energy needs rather than locking ourselves into using a polluting, backward technology for the next 50 years that harms people, damages our environment, and makes global warming much worse.
Regardless of what advocates say coal is yesterday's technology and should not be a part of our future energy production.
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PSC Rally
Please join us for the PSC rally on Thursday October 11th at 11:00 a.m.
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Wind Energy
Wind energy is the fastest-growing source of power on the planet. With our tremendous wind resources, Louisiana can become a world leader in wind energy. Already, wind turbines in this country produce enough electricity to meet the needs of more than 1 million households. A single modern wind turbine can produce enough power to meet the annual electricity needs of 500 average homes.
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Solar Power
The sun is the ultimate source of energy. All the energy stored in the earth's reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas is equal to the energy from only 20 days of sunshine.
With today's technologies, we can harness this energy to produce electricity. While some parts of the country are sunnier than others, most areas receive enough sunshine to make solar energy a powerful source of clean and affordable electricity. Thanks in part to successful research and development, the cost of solar technologies has plummeted in recent decades, approaching the cost of fossil fuels, and is likely to fall even further.
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Coal Power
Coal-fired power plants are one of our nation's largest—and dirtiest—sources of energy. Although these plants already produce about half of our electricity, there are plans on the drawing board to build over 150 new plants in the next few years. With new laws to fight global warming expected on the horizon, the coal industry is in a rush to build as many new plants as possible before pollution safeguards are in place.
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Nuclear Waste
At a time when its accumulation is accelerating and no plan for its permanent isolation has been developed anywhere in the world, nuclear waste is an unsolved problem.
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