Check out this fantastic new ad by the Reality Campaign:

Clean coal is just like regular coal, but they’ve harnessed “the awesome power of the word ‘clean’.”

Here are a few facts about “clean” coal from the Reality Campaign:

• There are no homes in America powered by “clean” coal.
• The coal industry is spending millions advertising “clean” coal, but not a single “clean” coal power plant exists in the U.S. today.
• There are roughly 600 coal plants producing electricity in the U.S. Not one of them captures and stores its global warming pollution.There is not a single large-scale demonstration “clean” coal plant in the U.S. today.
• Virtually all the new coal plants that have been proposed will, just like their predecessors, release 100 percent of the CO2 they produce into the atmosphere, where it will linger—and contribute to global warming.
• An investment in wind power produces almost three times as many jobs as the same investment in coal power. And an investment in solar power produces almost four times as many jobs, and energy efficiency, almost thirty times as many jobs as coal power.

Do we really want to continue the trend of soaring coal use?

There’s only one way out, and it’s not “clean” coal — we need to build renewable energy production, and we need to build it now.

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