Just a short note, but we’ve been hearing that today there will be an announcement about the proposed Marshalltown coal plant. Long story short – looks like those smokestacks have collapsed under public scrutiny and their own weight. As we and our partner groups have noted, once the public had time to fully express themselves, and the US EPA started the process toward regulating greenhouse gases in these sorts of proposals, Alliant was going to have to re-evaluate whether it made sense to build coal plants like Marshalltown. And (I hope!) the answer is no. No, it doesn’t make sense to build dirty coal when Iowa is a leader in clean technology. Clearly.

Thank you to everyone who wrote DNR asking for full public comment, wanted to do more, and most importantly GOT INVOLVED! Not to sound redundant, but ‘the action is where the action is’, and if you’re not involved yet then now is the time.

And of course, if the announcement tomorrow is that they’re going to use the ‘power of the word clean’, well… oops, it’s not over yet. We want to keep you ‘plugged in to the new energy’, so I guess we’ve got more to do!