Victory! Marshalltown Coal Plant Is Cancelled!
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congratulates and thanks everyone who fought for Iowa's air quality. This is a a huge victory for our health and our environment.Today Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) announced that it is cancelling plans to build a proposed new coal plant near Marshalltown, Iowa. Plains Justice [who led the fight] thanks Alliant for this responsible decision and encourages everyone to take action today to support bills in the Iowa legislature that would help ensure clean energy replaces the dirty coal power that was cancelled.
Two pieces of legislation that would lower your energy bills and decrease our reliance on dirty energy are stalled in the statehouse. Unless legislators hear from you now, this money-saving legislation will die before the full House and Senate can vote on it.
House Study Bill 150 and Senate Study Bill 1191 would save you money by requiring Iowa electric and natural gas utilities to invest in strong energy efficiency programs, the cheapest way to meet our energy needs. According to current filings before the Iowa Utilities Board, energy efficiency costs only 3 cents per kilowatt hour, while new coal generation can cost more than three times as much. Some current studies put the cost of power from new nuclear plants at 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt hour.
Energy efficiency is common sense, but some utility companies don’t want to bother. They can put more of your hard-earned dollars in their pockets if they build new coal plants and new nuclear plants instead. Call these legislators today and ask them to move the bills forward!
Senator Mike Gronstal (SSB 1191) mike.gronstal@legis.state.ia.us (515) 281-4610
Rep. Pat Murphy (HSB 150) Pat.Murphy@legis.state.ia.us (563) 582-5922
Senator Jerry Behn (SSB 1191) jerry.behn@legis.state.ia.us (515) 432-7327
Senator Tom Hancock (SSB 1191) tom.hancock@legis.state.ia.us (563) 876-3219
Senator Tom Rielly (SSB 1191) tom.rielly@legis.state.ia.us (641) 673-5878
Rep. Nathan Reichert (HSB 150) Nathan.Reichert@legis.state.ia.us (515) 281-3221
Rep. Donovan Olson (HSB 150) Donovan.Olson@legis.state.ia.us (515) 432-8163
Rep. Janet Petersen (HSB 150) Janet.Petersen@legis.state.ia.us (515) 279-9063
Rep. Chuck Soderberg (HSB 150) Chuck.Soderberg@legis.state.ia.us (712) 546-6136
Rep. Nick Wagner (HSB 150) nick.wagner@legis.state.ia.us (515) 281-3221
Governor Chet Culver (515) 281-5211 (Please ask the Governor to tell the committee members to move the bills forward.)
Thank you for helping Iowans save money on our energy bills and decrease our reliance on dirty energy!
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I wonder how they will store power from intermittant sources like wind and solar. I flew over picken's wind farm and it wasnt running, due to calm weather or lack of power distribution lines out of it.
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