On Tuesday, May 15th, New Jersey's LS Power plans to apply for
their permits to build a 750MW coal-fired power plant just east of
Waterloo, Iowa.  This plant will pour out carbon dioxide equivalent to
nearly a million new cars on Iowa's roads for its 40-50 year lifetime. 
We are in a desperate fight to reign in global warming and this plant
will dig us a hole that all our best efforts can't remedy.   The plant
will also pollute eastern Iowa's waters with heavy metals, including
hundreds of pounds of mercury annually, which settles into rivers and
lakes and bioaccumulates in fish across a wide region.  There are
already points on the Iowa and Cedar Rivers where an adult can eat only
a few 6 oz. servings per month of game fish and stay under EPA's safety
level for mercury.  The plant will destroy prime farmland, tap the
local aquifer, and invade a wetland.  Finally, the heavy metal-laden
coal ash waste will go into an unlined, abandoned quarry south of
Waterloo, in an area with such a high groundwater table that nearby
residents can't dig basements.
 
The Governor has a chance to put a delay on the permitting process
but today is the best day for it.  Call the Governor at 515-281-5211
and ask him to tackle global warming solutions and put a temporary stay
on the permitting process for new coal plants until the legislature has
had a chance to act on the Climate Change Advisory Council's
recommendations for greenhouse gas reductions in Iowa.  If permitted,
the two coal plants proposed by LS Power in Waterloo and Alliant Energy
in Marshalltown, along with the 790 MW behemoth MidAmerican just built
in Council Bluffs, will result in a 60% increase in Iowa's global
warming pollution since 1990.  If we're going to stop global warming
and move our energy economy forward, these plants cannot be built. 
CALL THE GOVERNOR TODAY – 515-281-5211.

Thank the Governor for his powerful statement about global warming
on April 27th: “Global Warming is a real danger that threatens our very
way of life, and it is our responsibility to take any and all steps
that we can to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and hope to curb
global warming.”

Let Governor Culver know that you want him to continue his
leadership on this important issue.  We want to see Iowa be the true
renewable energy capitol of the world, but that means saying “NO” to
new dirty coal.  Each of these plants will cost more than $1 billion. 
Let's put that cash into renewables and efficiency.

Thank you very much for your efforts, you are an invaluable part of this campaign!

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