Activists Against Gas-Fred Power Plants Rally at State Capitol

NEWS CORONAVIRUS INSIDE CA POLITICS MORNINGWe'd like to sendWEATHER you notificationsSPORTS for the ACTIONSlatest THAT MATTER STUDIO40 LIVE news and updates. ABOUT US No Thanks Allow CALIFORNIA CONNECTION Activists against gas-5red power plants rally at State Capitol by: Lonnie Wong Posted: Feb 4, 2020 / 08:30 PM PST / Updated: Feb 4, 2020 / 08:30 PM PST Data pix. SAS ERROR Invalid Authorization Response RELOAD YOUR SCREEN OR TRY SELECTING A DIFFERENT VIDEO 2-DAY FORECAST Current Tonight Tomorrow 82° 56° 86° Clear Partly Partly Cloudy cloudy Precip: 10% Precip: 10% SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) -- A gathering at the State Capitol Tuesday was led by the California Environmental Justice Alliance and supported by the Sierra Club. Their target was gas-fired power plants, especially those in poor and minority neighborhoods where critics say nitrogen oxide emissions harm children. "I have students coming into my class daily with headaches from playing outside, random nosebleeds and just feeling ill from playing outside like a kid,” said teacher Justice Sandoval. Natural gas power plants are far cleaner than coal-burning plants that are the primary target of the green movement. Although still a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming, gas plants account for just 1% of the nitrogen oxide emissions in the air, compared to mobile sources like motor vehicles. It was not that long ago that natural gas-fueled power plants were the solution to America's air pollution problems. So what has changed? It turns out that half of all gas-fired plants in the state operate in disadvantaged and polluted neighborhoods. Global warming has also taken center stage and renewable power generation like water, wind and solar are farther along. TRENDING "We can do it,” said Shannon Lazeraw with Communities for a Better Environment. “We have the technology. We need the pathway.” EGUSD’s superintendent discusses 1 California’s distance learning challenges Still, natural gas is essentially power on demand, rather than depending on Mother Nature. That means asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to come up with a concrete plan to close the dirtiest natural gas plants could California parents are forming ‘pandemic 2 be a hard sell. pods,’ ‘micro-schools’ But that's not stopping them from trying. Second stimulus check: McConnell says 3 GOP relief bill includes second round of A few decades ago, it was nuclear power plants that were in the crosshairs of environmental zealots. It ‘direct payments’ seemed like a longshot at the time but plants like the Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s decommissioned Rancho Seco facility are no longer being built. 18-year-old woman shot, killed while 4 visiting South Sacramento cemetery In many cases, natural gas plants were constructed instead. 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