Edwards Goes Public Against Coal

In the recent Democratic debate John Edwards called for stopping the construction of any new coal power plants in America that did not sequester the carbon dioxide emissions. His quote from the debate, courtesy of Grist:

I believe we need a moratorium on the building of any more coal-fired power plants unless and until we have the ability to capture and sequester the carbon in the ground. Because every time we build a new coal-fired power plant in America when we don’t have that technology attached to it, what happens is, we’re making a terrible situation worse.

We’re getting somewhere! Now if we could just get a front-runner to jump on board…


Posted on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 am | Tagged in Energy, Global Warming, Politics | posted by Marc

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