Volume VI, #91 | |
"We know people don't like coal. No matter what we do to call it clean, it's not; it's coal. This notion of clean coal technology is at least a decade out. And yet there's an almost insatiable appetite for energy."
- Thomas Rainwater, chief executive of SunEdison solar panel company, on the economic competitiveness of clean energy vs. old energy solutions. In this issue 1) Take Action: 3…2…1… 1) Take Action: 3…2…1… Let your member of Congress know that you are paying attention and you want them to vote for a bill that will get us to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. 2) Take Action: Save our Salmon! Today, only 1 percent of the wild salmon that existed at the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition come back to these once-mighty waters. Yet the Bush administration has failed to implement its own plan to save these endangered wild salmon and steelhead from extinction. 3) Energy:Wisconsin Cuts Coal! Learn more about the Sierra Club's work on coal and find out what is happening near you. 4) New Study: Wind Can Do That Find out more about clean energy solutions.
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