Truckee Residents Slam Utility's Coal Play

The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that a 50 year contract that a local utility company is about to sign with a Utah coal-fired plant has some residents angry because of the affect of coal buring on the environment.  Apparently the utility is hoping to sign this contract with the coal plant before the new state law banning utilities from entering into "...any agreement for coal-fired power that is longer than five years..."   It is encouraging to see that folks in Truckee join in with other people in California in recognizing what a danger burning coal, as it is currently done, is to our environment and instead calling for clean renewable energy.  The Truckee utility should not take the easy way out in opting for supposed cheap, dirty, energy and instead follow the example of albeit larger utilities in saying no to coal.