Sierra Club rep decries coal-fired power plants

Sierra Club rep decries coal-fired power plants

YOUNGSTOWN — A 27-state bus tour stopped today at the History Center of Industry and Labor to support the president’s proposals to target climate change by limiting carbon pollution and greenhouse gases.

But some at the “I Will Act on Climate” tour went further than that.

Rashay Layman, associate organizing representative for the Sierra Club in Columbus, said she wants to see coal plants, which provide a majority of Ohio’s electricity, phased out and replaced by solar and wind power.

“Clean-coal technology is not a better option,” than traditional coal plants, she said.

Bill Padisak, president of the Mahoning-Trumbull Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, said, “There should be a middle ground with good clean coal that burns efficiently.”

He supports building clean-coal facilities.

The tour began July 11 in Knoxville, Tenn., and will finish Aug. 19 in Washington, D.C.

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