Coal-fired Power Plants Are Fossil Fuel Dinosaurs

Why is Los Angeles Department of Water and Power planning to invest $400 million in a coal-fired power plant in Utah when pollution-free renewable sources of electricity are becoming affordable?

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August 31, 2004, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"It's a bit hard to fathom why the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been planning to invest as much as $400 million in the expansion of a giant air-polluting, coal-fired power plant in Utah just as pollution-free renewable sources of electricity are coming into common use and becoming more affordable."

Thanks to Joe S.

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