Sierra Club’s national Global Warming & Energy Program and Missouri Sierra Club’s Clean Air and Energy Campaign work cooperatively to promote clean energy solutions for Missouri, joining forces throughout the year to hold public events, develop community partnerships, and support each others’ priorities.
Missouri’s Clean Air and Energy Campaign is focused on Missouri’s long-term energy future. Missouri is far behind surrounding states in developing clean, renewable energy sources. This lag is allowing utility companies to continue to build dirty, coal-burning power plants in the state, while ignoring cleaner, more affordable, renewable energy solutions.
The goals of the Missouri Ozark Chapter’s Clean Air and Energy Campaign are to educate the public about the threats to human health and the environment posed by coal-burning power plants and ultimately protect the long-term health of Missourians by moving the state to embrace a clean energy future. To achieve these goals, our objectives are to:
- Promote clean energy options in Missouri — primarily efficiency and wind — as cleaner, more affordable and safer solutions to long-term energy needs;
- Prevent the construction of proposed new coal-burning power plants in Kansas City and Springfield and any additional plants that might be proposed;
- Reduce emissions from existing coal-burning power plants; and
- Promote a balanced energy portfolio for all utilities in Missouri.
Three new coal-burning power plants have been proposed in Missouri. Financial support is needed NOW to pay for expensive litigation associated with the permitting process of the two farthest along in their permitting process — in Springfield and Kansas City. The results of this litigation has the potential to affect future energy planning and projects throughout Missouri and the entire Midwest
To financially support Missouri’s Clean Air & Energy Campaign, send your contribution to Ozark Chapter Sierra Club, 1007 N. College, Suite 3, Columbia, MO 65201. *
* Please make your check payable to “Ozark Chapter Clean Air and Energy Campaign.” Contributions and gifts to the Ozark Chapter Sierra Club are not tax deductible; they support our effective citizen-based advocacy and lobbying efforts. This type of gift provides maximum flexibility for the Club. If you prefer to make a tax deductible gift, please make your contribution payable to Sierra Club Foundation, Ozark Chapter Clean Air and Energy Campaign. Contributions and gifts to The Sierra Club Foundation are tax-deductible as charitable contributions as they support grants for public education, research and public interest litigation necessary to further the Sierra Club’s conservation goals.
On-line donations: http://missouri.sierraclub.org. Only non-tax deductible donations are available on-line.
For questions contact Melissa Blakley, Chapter Development Associate, Melissa.blakley@sierraclub.org, (573) 999-7388.