Beyond Coal Senior Campaign Director Bruce Nilles on the push to eliminate coal

摘要

The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign,nlaunched in 2002 with a small group of volunteersnand staff, is no longer an organizationnthe coal industry “can sufficiently ignore,”nenvironmental lawyer Patrick Traylor said inna recent presentation. Buoyed by a $50 millionndonation from New York Mayor MichaelnBloomberg in 2011 and alliances with grassrootsnorganizations across the U.S., the BeyondnCoal campaign claims that 126 coal plantsnhave been slated for retirement since January 2010, as well as 13 proposed plants abandonednor defeated in 2012 alone.