See our "Pee Dee Plant News Coverage" section for updated news coverage of Santee Cooper's proposed coal plant, including local Physicians and newspaper editors calling on DHEC to test South Carolinians for mercury poisoning and an exaggerated economic development study on the coal plants completed by Francis Marion University. Read all about it!
Posted by Coastal Conservation League at 5:01 PM
Clean energy - efficiency and renewables - should be
Santee Cooper, South Carolina's state public service authority, wants to build a 1320 MW coal plant on the banks of the
It's the wrong choice for our state. The effects of coal emissions are clear: sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides drive acid rain and smog; soot, or fine particles, are a precursor for asthma and heart attacks; mercury poisons wildlife and imperils human life, and carbon dioxide is the primary driver of global warming. A new coal plant puts our environment, health, and economy at risk.
Insist on clean energy for South Carolina!
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