Reported by KPCC Southern California Public Radio, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be "signing papers" in the coming weeks that will wean the city from coal-fired power within the 12 years.
About 39 percent of L.A.'s power now comes from coal-fired plants. The mayor announced the news this week at an University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) event on green cities, sponsored by UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
The audience greeted Villaraigosa's news with surprise. The city's coal habit has been the topic of a significant amount of environmental campaigning in recent months.
Of the coal fired power in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's grid, two thirds comes from the 1,900 megawatt Intermountain Power Plant in Delta, Utah, while the remainder is generated by the 2,250-megawatt Navajo Generating Station in northern Arizona.
It's about time. Our air pollution is ridiculous.
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