Idaho Conservationist, July 2013 Vol. XVI, Number 2 | Page 5

ENERGY

Help Us Clean Up Idaho’s Energy!
The Energy Foundation, a
partnership of major foundations
interested in sustainable energy, has
generously agreed to match your gift
to ICL’s energy program! With those
funds, we can continue pressing for
clean energy at the Public Utilities
Commission.
Right now, burning coal in
surrounding states provides about
half of Idaho’s electricity. To keep
these decades-old plants running, our
utilities plan to spend tens of millions
over the next few years.
At the same time, the utilities
plan to spend hundreds of millions to
prevent smog, asthma, acid rain, and
other threats to our environment and
public health stemming from burning
coal. While limiting pollution is good,
this spending does nothing to reduce

the resulting climate-warming carbon
pollution.
Idaho faces the choice of a
generation: Do we double down on
dirty coal or “shutter” these plants and
invest the money in a clean, modern
energy future?
Soon ICL will challenge the
utilities’ plans to spend our money
to prolong dirty coal. They have
lawyers, engineers, accountants and
economists. We don’t. So to meet this
challenge, ICL needs you.
The Energy Foundation will
match your gift. Contact Lana Weber
(208.345.6933 x 16) to help ICL meet
the match of the Energy Foundation
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