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Michael Bloomberg pledges $500M to shutter U.S. coal plants
UPI ^ | Updated June 7, 2019 at 6:41 AM | By Darryl Coote

Posted on 06/07/2019 8:14:02 AM PDT by Red Badger

June 7 (UPI) -- Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday will launch what he calls the largest ever coordinated campaign to beat climate change, which will close all U.S. coal plants by 2030.

Bloomberg said the $500 million program, Beyond Carbon, will put the United States on track toward a 100 percent clean energy economy by working with advocates to "build on leadership and climate progress already underway."

Bloomberg and his foundation joined with the Sierra Club in 2011 to launch Beyond Coal with the goal of closing at least a third of U.S. coal plants.

"With 289 of 530 closed to date -- more than half the country's coal fleet -- Beyond Carbon will aim to close the rest by 2030 and stop the rush to build new gas plants," Bloomberg Philanthropies said in a statement Friday.

The program aims to transition the United States to 100 percent renewable energy and "ensure that after the 2020 election, the next administration inherits a country already well on the way to a full clean energy economy," it said.

"We're in a race against time with climate change, and yet there is virtually no hope of bold federal action on this issue for at least another two years," Bloomberg said in a statement. "Mother Nature is not waiting on our political calendar, and neither can we."

Bloomberg will formally announce the plan Friday during his commencement address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There are 241 coal plants operating in the United States, though 289 plants have closed since 2010, according to the Sierra Club.

President Donald Trump has positioned coal as a key pillar in his energy agenda. However, since taking office, some 50 plants have closed with another 51 announcing that they would also be shuttered, the Sierra Club said in May.


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To: Vehmgericht

The same promise worked out quite well for Ms Clinton, didn’t it?


21 posted on 06/07/2019 8:31:48 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Red Badger
I'd bet everything I own that Doomberg,like me,has visited China recently. As a result we both know that wherever you go in China the air is just about unbreathable thanks to coal power plants and factories.Statistics show that China is responsible for at least half of the toxic fumes put into the atmosphere today..and that that figure will rise.

And Doomberg also knows that for every coal powered plant that the West shuts down China opens up 20.

22 posted on 06/07/2019 8:32:53 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: Red Badger

because saying tough shit to all the american coal workers worked so well for Hillary.


23 posted on 06/07/2019 8:34:11 AM PDT by Fhios
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To: unixfox

National policy to ensure a safe and healthy energy sector requires free markets and diverse sources. Putting your thumb on the scale to get the political choice results in disaster.


24 posted on 06/07/2019 8:34:38 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Red Badger

I cant stand this not even a RINO re_PUBIC_an.


25 posted on 06/07/2019 8:35:04 AM PDT by phs3 (MAGA - Winning a little more every day!!!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

We put scrubbers on our coal plants. China? Not interested.


26 posted on 06/07/2019 8:42:00 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: phs3

But our glorious Republican party was more than happy to sell him the “R” brand back in 2001.

Wonder how much they got for that....


27 posted on 06/07/2019 8:47:19 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Red Badger
North America can claim 350 years of recoverable coal.
What we need is a Manhattan Project to produce clean coal.
28 posted on 06/07/2019 8:51:07 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: All

Bloomberg needs to be taxed at 100% of his net worth and made to work in a McDonalds the rest of his life.

For the children.


29 posted on 06/07/2019 8:51:38 AM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (The Eloi unexpectedly protected the Morlocks from rogue Eloi as they themselves prepared to be eaten)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

We do produce clean coal. New coal plants are clean except for, gasp, producing CO2.


30 posted on 06/07/2019 8:54:01 AM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (The Eloi unexpectedly protected the Morlocks from rogue Eloi as they themselves prepared to be eaten)
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To: Red Badger

Yep...


31 posted on 06/07/2019 8:56:01 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Can I get a shout out for the person(s) who donated $2,000.00 from France? Thanks so much! Wow!)
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To: Red Badger

Hey, Bloomberg, come on down to WV, and give that speech to the miners... I DARE YOU!

Coward.


32 posted on 06/07/2019 8:56:17 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Red Badger

I wonder what size diesel generators Bloomberg has at his many estates.


33 posted on 06/07/2019 8:56:37 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Red Badger

A fool and his money....


34 posted on 06/07/2019 8:58:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger
Bloomberg said the $500 million program, Beyond Carbon, will put the United States on track toward a 100 percent clean energy economy by working with advocates to "build on leadership and climate progress already underway."

We wonder if Bloomberg knows how far an investment of $500 million would go toward improving the technology of coal combustion to provide clean emissions from the burning of coal?

The idea of getting rid of a natural resource by not using it, is plain stupid, is it not?

Spending $500 million on the basis of a false premise does not seem to be very smart.

Investing in clean energy is not wrong if directed in an intelligent, common sense manner.

35 posted on 06/07/2019 8:58:57 AM PDT by olezip
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To: TheTimeOfMan

Well Clean is relative... Even the cleanest burning coal, with the best pollution controls, still produces a lot more than JUST C02.

Yes its a LOT cleaner than it was not all that long ago, but lets not overstate it.

You can’t burn ANYTHING without producing C02. That’s what combustion is... And that’s why its being latched onto by those who want control... because you can’t clean away C02.. its effectively what combustion is.


36 posted on 06/07/2019 8:59:34 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: goodnesswins

People with bank balances large enough to warrant having a private banker. She said they were all loony as a fruit bat. Well, one exception, a well-known local sports celebrity.


37 posted on 06/07/2019 8:59:52 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: VanShuyten

This wealthy criminal communist oaf is living proof that sewer slime can be elected to office.


38 posted on 06/07/2019 8:59:57 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Red Badger

$500 Large....of whose money? Surely not his own. I was born at night; but it wasn’t LAST night. Another grifter.


39 posted on 06/07/2019 9:02:31 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Red Badger
Bloomberg sits in the Capitol City...

... surrounded by the poorer districts


40 posted on 06/07/2019 9:03:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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