Reducing pollution from coal, risks of nuclear plants

ELPC’s Clean Energy Program seeks to improve environmental quality and public health by reducing both the pollution from coal plants and the environmental, public health and safety risks from nuclear plants. Achieving that goal requires increasing the use of less-polluting energy efficiency and renewable resources to meet energy needs in the electricity services marketplace of the Midwest/Great Lakes states. Learn how you can make a difference.

Electric utility restructuring and competitive economic pressures provide a new opportunity for public interest advocates to influence the industry that has the most substantial environmental impacts in the Midwest. In many cases, in addition to stressing their environmental superiority, we also focus on the economic and reliability benefits to be gained by the increased use of energy efficiency and renewable resources.

ELPC’s overall goal is to accomplish a transition from the region’s current resource portfolio, currently comprised almost exclusively of nuclear and older coal-burning plants, towards a more diverse, more sustainable and less polluting portfolio including wind energy, biomass and energy efficiency.

Learn more about ELPC’s energy efficiency programs and what you can do to help.