Climate change
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Human-induced global warming poses perhaps the greatest threat ever to our very survival and that of countless other plant and animal species across the globe. To achieve the cuts in emissions in carbon dioxide and other global-warming pollutants needed to avoid the most dire consequences of climate change, we must stop relying on carbon-emitting fossil-fueled power plants for our electricity.
In addition to promoting clean energy choices by utilities and regulatory agencies, the NW Energy Coalition is actively engaged in state and regional processes aimed at economy-wide cuts in carbon pollution.
- The Transformer - June 11, 2008
- This February, a press release from four of the country’s largest financial institutions caught utilities’ attention. Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Chase and Bank of America announced they had endorsed a set of carbon principles to be followed when evaluating loan applications to build or renovate coal-fired power plants...
- Protecting the Climate and Consumers
- In this podcast from the 2008 Spring Conference and Board Meeting in Helena, MT, State Rep. Mary Caferro and a panel of consumer advocates and climate change experts explore the impacts of climate legislation on low-income communities.
- FAQ: IGCC and New Coal Technologies
- April 2006 - Billions of dollars in federal subsidies have been and continue to be sunk into developing "clean coal" alternatives to traditional pulverized coal-burning power plants. The clean-coal technology of the moment is integrated gasification combined cycle, or IGCC. While IGCC has great potential, it must clear a number of technical and economic hurdles.
- New study shows that energy efficiency and renewables can slash U.S. global warming emissions
- The NW Energy Coalition, Sierra Club and other Washington state organizations have joined with the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and the nation’s preeminent climate scientists in unveiling a new plan for dramatically reducing the nation’s global warming emissions...
- Coalition comments on Energy Northwest’s phony ‘sequestration plan’
- Energy Northwest, the public consortium attempting to develop a gasified coal power plant in Kalama, Wash., recently submitted to state regulators what it called a “plan” to store (sequester) the plant’s global-warming emissions. In written comments to the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, the NW Energy Coalition demonstrates that the so-called plan falls light years short of what state law requires...