FIGHTING NEW COAL PLANTS
SELC is fighting construction of a new fleet of outdated coal-fired power plants in the Southeast—a region where coal combustion is already the largest source of heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions. Despite growing concern about global climate change, utilities across the South are racing to build new coal plants that would pump out millions of tons of CO2 each year. Moreover, these outdated facilities offer no options for curbing CO2 emissions and would undercut incentives to create a new energy future based on conservation, efficiency, and renewable sources. In our comprehensive effort to reduce the South’s outsized contribution to global warming, SELC seeks to prevent the further construction of conventional coal-fired plants anywhere in the Southeast.
