Dynegy Drops Dirty Coal Plants under Sierra Club Pressure


Sierra Club, January 2, 2009

Under pressure from the Sierra Club's "Clean Up Dynegy Campaign," Dynegy Inc. today announced that it is pulling out of its joint venture with LS Power and abandoning five of its seven proposed coal-fired power plants. In February 2008, the Sierra Club launched a national grassroots campaign to urge Houston-based coal giant Dynegy to clean up its act. The campaign kicked off with call-in events in 20 states, which generated thousands of telephone calls to Dynegy headquarters, pressuring the company to shift its investments away from coal and into cleaner, smarter energy solutions

 

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