Thousands Rally in U.S. for New Climate Change Law

Thousands Rally in US for New Climate Change Law

Several thousand demonstrators urged Congress on Monday to pass legislation to reduce greenhouse gases, and they targeted the government's own Capitol power plant as a symbol of the problem.

In Washington, D.C., more than 2,000 activists blocked the gates of a coal-fired power plant on Capitol Hill Monday in what was described as the largest display of civil disobedience on the climate crisis in US history. Police made no arrests. Days before the protest, congressional leaders said they want the Capitol Power Plant to drop coal and convert to natural gas. Protesters at the plant on Monday included NASA scientist James Hansen, the writer Wendell Berry and over 1,000 students who had attended the Power Shift conference on climate change.

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Anti-Coal Protesters Block Gates to Capitol Power Plant
March 2, 2009
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2009/2009-03-02-03.asp


Thousands rally in US for new climate change law
March 3, 2009
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/03/america/NA-US-Congress-Power-Plant.php


Climate Activists Block Gates to D.C. Coal Plant
March 3, 2009
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/3/headlines#5