Beyond Coal Nevada

In Nevada, the Sierra Club is leading a coalition of groups in preventing a merchant coal plant from being built just 85 miles north of Las Vegas. Chosen precisely because the area's pristine air quality would allow the plant's owners to spew thousands of tons of toxins into the air while still maintaining federally mandated guidelines, the merchant plant is the final plant our team is working to defeat. In addition, the Club is leading the way in strengthening the relationship between environmental, organized labor, and faith groups to develop renewable energy and efficiency into a third major industry for the state.

- Beyond Coal in Nevada

The Nevada Beyond Coal Campaign is working with a coalition of partners accross the countries to stop the Blackstone Group and Sithe Global who are trying to develop three large, dirty coal-fired power plants in the United States. These include the Desert Rock Energy Project, the Toquop Energy Project, and the River Hills Energy Project.

These three plants would produce over 2,500 megawatts of electricity for 50 years and, combined, would emit over 20 million tons of climate change-causing carbon dioxide every year, or over 1 billion tons of CO2 in the plants’ lifetimes. In addition, these plants would produce millions of tons of toxic pollutants in the form of airborne emissions and spent coal ash, including nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury, selenium and a variety of heavy metals, while also displacing real opportunities for clean, renewable energy and the jobs that come with them.

Local opposition to these plants from Nevada, Utah, the Four Corners region, and Pennsylvania is organized and very vocal. In addition to calls for these plants to be stopped, locals are also asking Blackstone to invest their dollars in clean renewable energy, not dirty coal. But we need your help.

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Take action on this issue now!!!

Add your photo to our petition to stop the Blackstone Corporation from building three large, polluting coal plants in our backyards and degrading our beautiful landscape, our air quality, and our quality of life in four states: Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.

It's easy! Write a short letter to Blackstone's CEO Stephen Schwarzman letting him know you don't want his dirty coal business in your backyard.

Hold up your letter and snap a picture of yourself. Add your photo to our petition by following our easy steps.

Follow our easy steps below to add your photo:

1. Send an email to: noblackstonecoal@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

2. Take a moment to customize the subject line and body of the message:

Subject Line: No Blackstone Coal

Message: First name, last initial, your state. Feel free to add a comment in your message!

3. Attach the image of yourself holding up your note to CEO Shwartzman - and send!

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