Citizens Organize to Move Los Angeles “Beyond Coal”
Sep 26th, 2011 | By Paul Russell Laverack
By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
Citizens organize a petition drive in the San Fernando Valley of northern Los Angeles on September 24, 2011, as part of the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign. Los Angeles currently gets around 40% of its electricity from two dirty coal-fired power plants in Arizona and Utah, and while the city already has a plan to move away from coal over time, the Sierra Club wants to accelerate the pace of change, so that LA is beyond coal by 2020.
