Resolution FAQ - (Stacia Naquin) Updated: 05/14/2013 - I'm still
focused on meeting my goal of doing a pull-up. And I'm almost
there! But I'm always getting this question: The Martin Drake
Coal Power Plant in Colorado Springs is at the center of a
controversial conversation after a new study is released. An
environmental group released the study that claims the downtown
power plant harms our health, because it’s fired by coal. We’re
all seen the steam coming from the coal-fired power plant near
downtown. The Sierra Club wants to see it shut down citing a new
study that claims that no matter what the utility company does,
the power plant is polluting our air with a harmful gas called
sulfur dioxide. “It’s much more than us just calling this out,
we’re talking about public health, talking about these
communities that are in the shadow of this power plant that are
breathing in the sulfur dioxide,” Bryce Carter, Associate
Organizing Representative for Sierra Club Beyond Coal in
Colorado. Carter thinks all Springs