The Iowa City Press Citizen ran a great editorial yesterday written by Mark Kresowik, the national corporate accountability representative for the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” Campaign. In it, Mark chronicles some of the trespasses Alliant Energy has undertaken to promote their new plant in Marshalltown, touts aspects of Obama’s new energy plan that will render such projects obsolete, and calls for all of us to take action and tell the DNR what a poorly planned, ill-advised project this is.

Says Mark, “Are we going to sit by and let energy utilities dictate when we take action on global warming for their own selfish purposes? Are we going to let them force a costly, polluting coal plant down our throats instead of creating jobs with the proven, cost-effective, and clean technologies available here and now? The DNR has an obligation to regulate the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Let’s make sure they do so.”

Read his piece here

Someone should also tell Alliant Energy that its going to be a lot more difficult to run a coal power plant in the near future, anyway.

Thanks to Pam Mackey-Taylor from the Sierra Club for the tip!