Comments on: The AEP Plan: Nine Coal Plants within Ten Miles? http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/04/11/nine-coal-plants-within-ten-miles/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ohio Citizens Standing Up to Big Coal at It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/04/11/nine-coal-plants-within-ten-miles/#comment-45555 Tue, 01 May 2007 09:14:45 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/nine-coal-plants-within-ten-miles/#comment-45555 [...] In the 1940s and 50s the residents of Meigs County, Ohio were promised jobs and economic prosperity in exchange for two large new coal-fired power plants. Sixty years later the county is one of the poorest in Ohio, residents are suffering from cancer and other serious health effects from air pollution and soil and water contamination. Today the barrage of promises for jobs and economic prosperity from coal is back in full force. [...]

]]> By: Matt Reitman http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/04/11/nine-coal-plants-within-ten-miles/#comment-45556 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:04:15 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/nine-coal-plants-within-ten-miles/#comment-45556 Josh, thanks for posting this – video is such a useful tool for letting people know about the situation in Meigs. Elisa and I have exposed over 1,000 young people to this story face-to-face over the past six months, and I’m actually in Ohio visiting schools right now to spread the word. We’re also having a Step It Up action in Meigs County this Saturday.

Energy Justice Summer promises to be an amazing time. So glad you’re interested!

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