Why is the League of Women Voters calling for a 10-year moratorium on new coal-fired power plants?
We must take aggressive action to halt global climate change. The earth is getting warmer, and this is already having significant impacts. Evidence includes disappearing glaciers, rising sea levels, increasingly severe heat waves and droughts in some areas, intensifying hurricanes and floods in others, and more wildfires. If left unchecked, the effects of climate change could be catastrophic: millions of people displaced as rising sea levels flood coastal areas; many regions devastated by reduced crop yields and shortages of drinking water; human health threatened by the spread of malaria and other vector-borne diseases; numerous plant and animal species at risk of extinction. Restricting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from coal-fired power plants is one of the most important steps we can take to counter global climate change. Coal is the single largest source of global warming pollution in the U.S. No new coal-fired plants should be built until their carbon emissions can be prevented
