Almost too easy:
[S]urrounded by boxes of energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs [Pelosi] wants to install in 12,000 desk lamps, she became conspicuously vague when asked about the pair of towering smokestacks four blocks away.
Congress runs the Capitol Power Plant, which heats and cools buildings on the Hill. Two senators ensure it burns coal, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels.
The Capitol Power Plant, operated by Congress, is the only coal-burning plant in the District and is a major source of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and soot in a city that has repeatedly been found in violation of the Clean Air Act.
But any efforts to eliminate coal have been thwarted by two of the most powerful figures in the Senate, who just happen to represent coal-producing states: Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
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caniscandida Posted 5:35 pm
21 Apr 2007
not bad, it's on the front page
Not that the Saturday paper is necessarily all that widely read. My guess is this article had been mostly written for some time, and the WashPost was holding it for the Earth Day weekend. Today's paper would of course have been better than yesterday's, but still, that they ran it on the front page is not bad.
Robert Byrd must surely be the most frustratingly unpredictable Democrat in DC. He can say such excellent things on some issues, e.g. in deploring the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and in challenging George W. Bush during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq; but he can be so abominably disappointing on others.
Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!
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ffletcher Posted 7:54 pm
21 Apr 2007
Change Is In the Air
I suspect the fuel source of that plant change within four years.
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amazingdrx Posted 2:45 am
22 Apr 2007
A great opportunity!
Switch that power plant to solid oxide fuel cell/turbine running on biogas from waste. Plenty of that All the wasted food alone from 500 dollar lobbyist funded lunches would do it.
And put a floating wind/wave power installation offshore to provide most off the power the coal used to.
That would be radical.
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