March 19, 2001 - US Secretary of Energy boasts about all the coal plants he will build (doesn’t). - All Our Yesterdays

March 19, 2001 - US Secretary of Energy boasts about all the coal plants he will build (doesn’t). - All Our Yesterdays

Twenty four years ago, on this day, March 19th, 2001, Spencer Abraham announcing new power plants each year etc.  “On the other side, Energy Secretary Abraham had stated in a public speech on March 19 that the United States must add ninety new power plants each year, mostly coal-fired, for the next twenty years to meet the need for a 45 percent increase in electricity demand by 2020. Vice President Cheney strongly supported efforts to increase …