[announce] {Disarmed} Fwd: URGENT! State GOP Trying 11th Hour Deal For Coal

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From: Monica Patel, Ecology Center <monica at ecocenter.org>
Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Subject: URGENT! State GOP Trying 11th Hour Deal For Coal
To: ecadvocate at gmail.com


       Take Action Today!

Dear Mike,
[image: No New Coal!]
Today we learned that many Michigan residents will be hit with a 33 percent
increase in their electric bills next year to pay for a new, unneeded, dirty
coal plant. The Michigan Senate's passed an 11th hour bill on the eve of
their holiday break that will stick even more of us with higher energy costs
unless we act now.

While many of our country's leaders are pushing for a treaty in Copenhagen
on climate change, Michigan's Republican Senate majority just hours ago
approved legislation that would all but guarantee a new polluting coal plant
will be built in Michigan. But it doesn't have to be that
way.<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PkmzdWq5UKEyl0JdfRWU6FlnHJNQ%2FEEx>

*If you act now to tell your state Representative to oppose the Senate
Substitute for House Bill 5220 we can stop Michigan from building what would
likely be the last dirty coal plant constructed in
America.*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7sfGhrvk4O5wKA5qwgFKdFlnHJNQ%2FEEx>

Other states have rejected more than 100 new coal plants, but some Michigan
politicians just don't get it.
The Senate bill that bypasses established procedures on coal plant permits
is now before the state House, which is meeting in the final hours before
leaving for a long holiday break. They must hear from you that breaking the
rules to build a new, unneeded coal plant is wrong for Michigan and for
clean energy jobs.<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LYt%2F9rNjKJBFe4Cj6TxAZllnHJNQ%2FEEx>

Incredibly, the Senate legislation goes around established procedures and
makes it illegal for the state to even consider whether a new coal plant is
needed in deciding whether to issue a Clean Air Act permit.    The Michigan
Public Service Commission staff recent said Michigan doesn't need another
coal plant build to meet our energy needs. But the Michigan Senate says that
doesn't matter-big utility companies and big profits trump common sense and
the interest of ratepayers who would be forced to cover the $1.2 billion
cost of a new coal plant.

Not only does this bill stick it to ratepayers, it rejects alternative
energy such as wind and solar as a substitute for dirty coal-an action that
flies in the face of Michigan's economic development around clean energy
jobs.

*It's up to us now to make sure Michigan makes the right choice on energy.
Please take action
today.*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BrKjkias2LLCJItfi37ajVlnHJNQ%2FEEx>

Sincerely,

Monica Patel
Policy Associate



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