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Activists Fight Coal, Plant by Plant

Posted Apr 14, 08 1:41 PM CDT in Business,  Science & Health 

(Newser) – Environmentalists are taking aim at new, high-pollution coal-fired power plants, the Los Angeles Times reports. Whenever a new plant is proposed, lawyers from a coalition of organizations work on killing it any way that they can. "We hope to clog up the system," one said. "It's putting pressure on Congress to put together a comprehensive plan."

The coalition claims to have stopped 65 new plants from being built. "They are doing it in a way that is unfair," complains a lawyer for developers. Existing coal plants appear to be next on the agenda, the Times notes. "We'll need to find a way to go after them, too," says a lawyer at an environmental firm.

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Sunflower Electric Cooperative's coal-fired power plant in Holcomb, Kan. churns out electricity in this Feb. 2, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)
In this handout photo provided by Greenpeace, Greenpeace hot air balloon flies over Liddell and Bayswater coal-fired power stations in the Hunter Valley, north of Sydney, Australia.   (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Dean Sewell, HO)
Duke Energy's Plant Allen is shown in Belmont, N.C. in this Aug. 7, 2007 file photo. Environmentalists are fighting planned coal power plants, and figuring out how to take down existing ones.   (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
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