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.
We already have it..........
Atlantis.....................
EVIL, VILE, VICIOUS CREEP! I’d LOVE to put HIM out of business!
What replaces these coal-fired plants as they are shut down?
Please say that at least the power generation capacity WILL be replaced by an equal amount of natural gas-fired capacity, and when will Thorium-fueled Molten Salt reactors be going on line? Do not give any hokum that wind or solar power generation is going to replace the decommissioned coal-fired plants. They are both far too unreliable and actually very cumbersome in terms of restricting land use devoted to their placement, and requiring effectual placement, in areas where there is relative certainty of some wind or solar activity, and close enough to urban centers to make their use cost effective without having many miles of high-tension delivery lines.
And what is this business of decommissioning hydroelectric power generation. That is reliable “renewable” non-carbon power generation, and the technology is well developed.
This guy is an annoying idiot.
I would quit building huge windmill farms,”What an eyesore they are.”
And the pink feathered, black beaked Funderstroker is being killed off by these things anyway...
Dems are begging to lose Pennsylvania again in 2020.
It’s not about power generation, energy, climate change, global warming or pollution.
It’s about CONTROL of the MANY by the FEW who can enjoy the benefits of the LABORS of the MANY....................
well, the more $ he throws at coal,
the less $ he has left for his sickening damned gun-grabbing krap!
since he doesn’t have a clue how to use his money constructively or for moral, ethical causes...
the best solution to the Bloomy problem in our society may be to just
have him toss all his $ down Mariana Trench
Show it to me.
Coal gassification................
I kinda thought that’s what you meant...just wanted to make sure. thx
The jerk should try that in China where they bring another new plant on line every week.
Whys isn’t he trying to close all the Chinese Coal Fired Plants that have no Pollution Controls at all?
That makes sense. Most of the reason people of normal means don't sound like loons is that they have to behave within and accept the rules of society. If you have enough money to have your dumbest ideas come to life, and are surrounded by people who are paid to make your life as happy as possible, you haven't heard the word "no" in a long time.
Yes, very dangerous.
Only environmental hazard issues out of Bloomingidiots smell @$$hole.
Richest 1% in the country?
All about control of the masses is all they want. 100% agreed.
Deep State thugs? Pretentious airheads from State? Moeny for 'speeches' from liberal thugs in DC? Funding detective generated "research" to trade with newspapers too prissy to buy their own dirt, but willing to take it 'in trade' for for for ... favors?
DC graft is protected by 'norms' - line the pockets of deep state thugs - gain power.
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