Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) on Monday will participate in a campaign event alongside the radical environmentalist group pushing to close the state’s largest coal plant.
The Sierra Club, a radical environmental group that pushes for the closure of “all U.S. coal plants,” will join Brown at a virtual phone bank sponsored by the Ohio Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign. Earlier this month the group signed a letter sent to Blackstone, the owner of the Gavin coal plant in southeast Ohio, demanding the coal plant be shut down.
“You cannot undo the damage from pollutants emitted during Blackstone’s nearly eight years of ownership of Gavin. But you have the opportunity to announce a retirement date of no later than 2028, which could lend Blackstone some credibility in its pledges of emissions reductions and an energy transition and avoid the perception that Blackstone is incapable of…
