From Hill Heat:
Sen. Reid made a huge announcement this weekend: The threat of global warming should preclude the construction of new coal-fired plants anywhere in the world.
He also took aim at "clean coal" advocates:
There's not a coal-fired plant in America that's clean. They're all dirty.
Reid is three-quarters of the way to supporting all of the planks of Step It Up 2.
At a community meeting he said:
We have a lot of sun, we have a lot of wind and we are the Saudi Arabia of geothermal energy. The sooner we move toward the sun, the wind, geothermal, biomass, the better off we'll be, and we will never do it until we have a tax policy that gives people an incentive to invest in these industries because the big oil companies have controlled America.
From the Associated Press this weekend:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the threat of global warming should preclude the construction of new coal-fired power plants anywhere in the world.
The Nevada Democrat last month came out against three proposed major coal-fired plants in his home state, but on Saturday extended that opposition to any such new plants worldwide.
He said each coal-fired plant burns 7 million tons of coal every year, spewing out pollutants that contribute to global warming.
"There's not a coal-fired plant in America that's clean. They're all dirty," Reid told reporters after speaking at a conference on renewable energy. "Unless we do something quickly about global warming, we're in trouble."
Photo credits: Coal Power Plant B&W © 2006 Bruno D Rodrigues and Dandelion Eclipse © 2006 Roger Smith