Moving Beyond Coal

In 1892, conservationist John Muir, along with many of his supporters, founded the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (http://www.sierraclub.org/) continues to tackle our Nation’s – and the world’s – most pressing environmental issues. The Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign (http://www.beyondcoal.org/) strives to move the United States away from coal-powered energy and toward renewables, such as solar and wind. So far, the Beyond Coal campaign has stopped over 150 proposed coal-fired power plants! In this video, the Director of the Illinois Chapter of the Sierra Club, Jack Darin, explains how the Beyond Coal campaign has reached the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago, and tells us if clean coal really exists.

This year (2012), the Sierra Club helped shut down two of Chicago’s dirtiest coal power plants. Working with citizens living around the plants, the Sierra Club formed a powerful coalition to close these plants that were causing asthma and other health proble