Could San Francisco Launch a Coal-Free City Eco-Tourism Campaign?
“San Francisco: Where the Power is Clean and Life is Good”Hey kids! Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge without a film of mercury!Bring grandma and stroll through Chinatown and Fisherman’s Wharf free from the thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and carbon dioxide emissions, as well as the particulate matter that lead to thousands of heart attacks and asthma attacks!Go to Alcatraz and stand in solidarity with the Appalachian coalfields, soon to be freed from the prison of mountaintop removal mining!Only in San Francisco: A Coal-Free City!Well, almost.While Los Angeles and Dehli, India have announced their intentions to become coal-free cities, the Bay Area-based Pacific General and Electric company still apparently gets 8 percent of its juice from coal:According to I Love Mountains, which campaigns against mountaintop removal and monitors the consumption of mountaintop removal coal, part of San Francicso’s lovely skyline is lit up with strip-mined coal. Check out your ne
“San Francisco: Where the Power is Clean and Life is Good”Hey kids! Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge without a film of mercury!Bring grandma and stroll through Chinatown and Fisherman’s Wharf free from the thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and carbon dioxide emissions, as well as the particulate matter that lead to thousands of heart attacks and asthma attacks!Go to Alcatraz and stand in solidarity with the Appalachian coalfields, soon to be freed from the prison of mountaintop removal mining!Only in San Francisco: A Coal-Free City!Well, almost.While Los Angeles and Dehli, India have announced their intentions to become coal-free cities, the Bay Area-based Pacific General and Electric company still apparently gets 8 percent of its juice from coal:According to I Love Mountains, which campaigns against mountaintop removal and monitors the consumption of mountaintop removal coal, part of San Francicso’s lovely skyline is lit up with strip-mined coal. Check out your ne
