Healing the planet: In an attempt to prevent bad weather, Bloomberg and the Sierra Club will spend $150 million trying to shut down the coal plant that powers Grandma's heart-lung machine

Bloomberg and Sierra Club Join Forces to Slow Coal - NYTimes.com

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York announced on Thursday that his main charitable organization would donate $50 million over four years to the Sierra Club’s campaign to shut down coal plants and move the United States toward cleaner sources of energy.

Appearing with the Sierra Club’s executive director, Michael Brune, near a coal plant in Alexandria, Va., Mr. Bloomberg said he hoped that his gift would help the environmental group retire as many as a third of the nation’s oldest coal-fired power plants by 2020.
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“If we are going to get serious about reducing our carbon footprint in the United States, we have to get serious about coal,” Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement. “Coal is a self-inflicted public health risk, polluting the air we breathe, adding mercury to our water and the leading cause of climate disruption.”
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The recipient of the mayor’s latest largess, the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, claims to have stopped more than 150 new coal-fired power plants in recent years through litigation and local action. Mr. Bloomberg’s $50 million represents a third of the campaign’s projected $150 million four-year budget, the Sierra Club said.