Mayor's message to students .... none of that will matter, he said, if coal-fired power plants keep running.

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson railed against the coal industry through rock 'n' roll Thursday as a potentially "catastrophic" contributor to global warming. 

Rocky rolled out his anti-coal message to hundreds of students at East, West and Horizonte high schools Thursday, calling for a moratorium on the construction of new coal-fired power plants and the eventual elimination of all existing ones.

 

No other action, he said, will curb carbon dioxide emissions enough to keep global warming from causing devastating droughts, hard-hitting hurricanes and widespread floods in coastal communities.  "This is the most urgent challenge facing our planet," Anderson said.

 

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