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These events show the groundswell of support for action on clean energy and climate solutions that will help move our country in a new direction,” said Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “At this critical moment-when Americans need to get back to work and the impacts of global warming are already being felt-we need our elected officials to act on legislation that will unleash investments that will create jobs and move America to a clean energy future.”

Coming just a week after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the city would end coal use by 2020, and announced the same day as a decision by Basin Electric Power in South Dakota to pull plans for a new coal-fired power plant, the Intermountain Power coal plant in Utah became the 100th prevented coal plant. The decision marks a significant milestone in the shift to clean energy.