Coal Free CA

California has a dirty secret: Every day cities across California use coal-fired power plants to produce dirty energy while outsourcing their pollution to other states!

Far from the southern California beaches, the movie studios of Hollywood, and the Golden Gate Bridge, a fleet of coal plants in distant western states churn out power for the California market. These coal plants discharge vast quantities of air pollution, consume huge amounts of water and emit destructive global warming gases.

Some of the largest mining operations in the United States tear up the land in the Southwest to provide the coal they burn.

Every Day, Californians power from these coal plants is transmitted thousands of miles to customers in California... while the pollution and environmental disturbances stay behind, sending a cascade of human health and environmental impacts across the American West and the globe.

• Each year, California’s share of dirty coal plants releases a staggering 67 million tons of global-warming carbon dioxide

• The Four Corners Power Plant and the San Juan Generating Station, which is partly owned by the Southern California Public Power Authority, the city of Anaheim, the Imperial Irrigation District and the MSR Public Power Agency, have the unfortunate distinction of being the top two
  mercury-emitting power plants in the American West.

• The Navajo Generating Station and the Four Corners Power Plant each consume more than 8 billion gallons of water every year.

Get The Facts

Physicians for Social Responsibility recently found that burning coal is linked to four of the top five causes of death in the US. Coal is the dirtiest source of electricity used in the United States.  Learn the dirty truth about the L.A.'s Coal Plants and the harmful effects of burning coal.

LOCATION OF CA's DIRTY COAL PLANTS

Press Releases

• 2010.10.29
  Allesandro Elementary Students to Teach Peers about Coal-Fired Power and Climate Change
• 2010.10.11
  LA Council President Eric Garcetti Announces Support for Sierra Club Effort to Move Los Angeles Beyond Coal
• 2010.10.06
  Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Endorses Beyond Coal Campaign
• 2010.09.15
  East Los Angeles Residents Call for Coal-Free Los Angeles
• 2010.09.13
  West Los Angeles Residents Call for End to Coal in Los Angeles

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Activist Resources

• Organize a Home Meeting
• Setting up a letter writing table
• Write a Letter to your elected official
• Engaging your elected official
• Health and Safety Risks of Carbon Capture and Storage
  

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