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"No More Polluting Power Plants! We Want Clean Air and Green Energy!" Bayview Hunters Pt. & Potrero Residents Deliver 5,000 Postcards to Mayor Brown Demanding Immediate Closure of PG&E Hunters Point power plant, Opposing Expansion of Potrero plant, and Supporting Green Energy
See Also: Coalition Calls on City and State to Support Green Energy Environmental Justice Plan! Read the plan for green energy and how to close the PG&E Hunters Point power plant today! Read the new Greenaction Green Energy Fact Sheet! Read
the Hunters Point Power Plant Fact
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Community
Environmental Justice Coalition Releases Community Green Energy Plan
for San Francisco San Francisco, CA --- Community groups announced today the first specific green energy plan for San Francisco, demanding action by the City to put clean, renewable technologies in place. The coalition's action comes as state and federal governments fail to define alternatives to ongoing and potentially increasing pollution from San Francisco power plants. The proposal from a coalition of community environmental justice groups is backed by analysis of individual power resources in the recent draft City Energy Plan and other studies. Residents of San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point and Potrero neighborhoods continue to suffer from the polluting fossil fuel plants near homes, schools and businesses. Residents, joined by community, health and environmental justice groups, are calling on City and State officials to move immediately to close the PG&E Hunters Point power plant, stop expansion of Mirant's Potrero plant, and to implement more renewable energy, conservation and efficiency programs. "The Mayor must keep his promise to close the PG&E Hunters Point power plant which makes us sick from the fumes," said Caroline Washington, long-time Bayview Hunters Point resident." "We need clean energy from the sun and wind." Highlights of the Community Energy Plan include:
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