Cali's electicity make up looks like this:
16.6% of Cali's energy comes from COAL:
68% of African-Americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant – the distance within which the maximum effects of the smokestack plume are expected to occur. By comparison, about 56% of the white population lives within 30 miles of these plants.11.7% Large Hydro
45.2% Natural Gas
14.8% Nuclear
11.8% Renewables (biomass, geothermal, small hydro, solar, wind)
Toxic pollution from 88.2% of the dirty energy sources powering Cali are making P.O.C. sick with asthma and cancer. Power plants aren't in White neighborhoods, they're in our neighborhoods.
All over the world it's P.O.C. who are suffering the most.
According to National Argonne Laboratory researchers, 57 percent of whites, 65 percent of African Americans, and 80 percent of Hispanics live in 437 counties with substandard air quality.Nuff said.
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thanks for all your posts about the propositions, they are quite informative and helpful. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one resisting the corporate greenwashing of Prop. 7. Have you seen the ridiculous t.v. ads put out by the opposition? It floors me that PG&E is spending that amount of our ratepayer money to falsify the choice we have with prop. 7.
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