Every time a new coal-fired power plant is proposed anywhere in the United States, a lawyer from the Sierra Club or an allied environmental group is assigned to stop it, by any bureaucratic or legal means necessary.
The plant-by-plant strategy is part of a campaign by environmentalists to force the federal government to deal with climate change.
The Sierra Club is coordinating opposition to about 50 additional power plant proposals.
The goal: "We hope to clog up the system," said David Bookbinder, the Sierra Club's chief climate counsel.
Members of the environmental law brigade concede that stopping new plants may not be as effective in reducing emissions as getting the oldest, dirtiest, least efficient coal plants offline. Coal supplies half of America's electricity.
"We'll need to find a way to go after them, too,"
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