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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.
The same promise worked out quite well for Ms Clinton, didn’t it?
And Doomberg also knows that for every coal powered plant that the West shuts down China opens up 20.
because saying tough shit to all the american coal workers worked so well for Hillary.
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.
I cant stand this not even a RINO re_PUBIC_an.
We put scrubbers on our coal plants. China? Not interested.
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....
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.
We do produce clean coal. New coal plants are clean except for, gasp, producing CO2.
Yep...
Hey, Bloomberg, come on down to WV, and give that speech to the miners... I DARE YOU!
Coward.
I wonder what size diesel generators Bloomberg has at his many estates.
A fool and his money....
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.
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.
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.
This wealthy criminal communist oaf is living proof that sewer slime can be elected to office.
$500 Large....of whose money? Surely not his own. I was born at night; but it wasn’t LAST night. Another grifter.
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