New Coal Plants Pose Emissions Threat
Posted on: Monday, 14 May 2007, 12:00 CDT
U.S. efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may be offset by the construction of new coal plants by the country's rural electric cooperatives.
The cooperatives plan to spend $35 billion over the next decade to build conventional coal plants which spew carbon dioxide that scientists blame for global warming, The Washington Post reports.
The plants will be built with government-subsidized, low-interest loans from a program created 70 years ago to bring electricity to rural areas.
Even though the Depression-era program's goal has long been accomplished, the federal government continues to make the loans, the Post says.
The powerful National Rural Electric Cooperative Association deployed 3,000 members to Capitol Hill last week to push Congress to keep the program intact, arguing that loans for new coal plants are needed to keep electricity cheap and reliable in rural areas of the United States.
Environmentalists argue the program removes any pressure for rural co-ops to promote energy efficiency or tap renewable sources of energy.
Source: United Press International
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