Comments on: Stopping the Coal Rush – Map of Challenges (and Victories!) http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/21/stopping-the-coal-rush-map-of-challenges-and-victories/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Stop Toquop.org » Blog Archive » Stopping the Coal Rush - Map of Challenges (and Victories!) http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/21/stopping-the-coal-rush-map-of-challenges-and-victories/#comment-57077 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:39:54 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/21/stopping-the-coal-rush-map-of-challenges-and-victories/#comment-57077 [...] Stopping the Coal Rush – Map of Challenges (and Victories!) [...]

]]> By: angeline3 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/21/stopping-the-coal-rush-map-of-challenges-and-victories/#comment-57048 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:48:13 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/21/stopping-the-coal-rush-map-of-challenges-and-victories/#comment-57048 To meet the IPCC carbon emissions goals, carbon emissions must peak in 2012. This means that every power plant built after 2012 must be carbon free and some carbon-emitting plants must have early retirements.

I think it is awesome that we are making so much headway in preventing more coal plants from coming online; hopefully we can phase out coal plants by 2012.

But I know that in some cases, even after a hard fight, the coal plants will be built. On the bright side, most new coal plants are incredibly more efficient than their predecessors. So if we can at least convince the power companies to close old coal plants in exchange for newer, more efficient ones, we would be moving in the right direction. Has anyone tried this approach?

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