How You Can Help

Gov. Rendell and state leaders are drafting a global warming plan for Pennsylvania, and we want to demonstrate public support for an ambitious plan that achieves the pollution reductions scientists say are necessary.  Send an email to Gov. Rendell today to let him know you support a strong global warming plan.

Brief Summary

In order to avoid the worst consequences of global warming, we need to drastically reduce global warming pollution levels in Pennsylvania and nationwide. Unfortunately, some utilities are advocating for the complete opposite, pushing plans to build new coal-fired power plants in the Commonwealth and across the country.  For instance, the Texas utility TXU had planned to build up to five new coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania, which would each create roughly 7 million tons of new global warming pollution annually.

To put this in perspective, we'd have to take 6 million cars off the road to offset the new global warming pollution that five new TXU coal-fired power plants would create.

Given that global warming is the most pressing environmental problem facing us today, we can't afford to allow polluters to make things worse by drastically increasing global warming pollution levels. In 2006, PennEnvironment worked to prevent TXU from constructing their proposed plants, and in February 2007 the utility announced that it would  be abandoning its plans in Pennsylvania.  But other proposals for new dirty power are also pending, so we're working to make sure that such plans go nowhere by urging state leaders to adopt a global warming plan for Pennsylvania that sets strict pollution standards for new power production in the state.