April 7, 2008—The nonprofit research organization Architecture 2030 is holding a “BYOBlue for Earth Day 2008” event and is urging people to wear blue on Earth Day, April 22, to signify support for an immediate moratorium on the construction of any new conventional coal-fired power plants.
Then, on April 22, the association urges supporters to call Congress and ask for an immediate “Moratorium on Coal—a halt to the construction of any new conventional coal-fired power plants.” Through this event, Architecture 2030 hopes to generate more than a million phone calls to Congress. As the Earth Policy Institute points out, of the 151 conventional coal plants in the planning stage in early 2007, 59 were cancelled last year and some 50 more currently are being contested..
