100 Days of Action

Take action.  Tell your story.  Join the movement.

President Obama and Congress have a unique opportunity to tackle one of the biggest justice issues in the United States today: Coal.  So far they've made impressive strides, but as people whose lives are directly impacted by dirty energy, we won't settle for half-measures. 

The whole life cycle of coal is costly, dirty and deadly, from mining, to dumping coal waste to global warming. The communities that coal impacts are some of the poorest places in the US; we need new green jobs in these communities and new energy options for America.

Each day, from January 21st to April 30th, one or more communities made a call for us to power past coal – from its destructive mining practices to its dangerous waste disposal. Citizens across the US gathered with each other and organizations, small and large, to work for clean energy, to tell their truth about coal, to keep false solutions that include coal out of climate change legislation, and stand in solidarity with communities impacted by coal.  By April 30th, together we had organized over 300 actions.  

Our actions are proof of the new power we are building — the power of the grassroots joining together to Power Past Coal.