When we demand Green Energy, we're ordering electric providers to pour more green power and less dirty energy into the pool. Eventually, this could pull dollars away from the heavy polluters and reduce environmental damage. Energy Pool Coal . Burning coal is the leading cause of acid rain, the largest source of global warming emissions and a pig producer of smog, toxic metals and tiny particle pollution. High-impact hydroelectric .
Many plants can carry a big environmental price tag.
Such as negative impacts on river ecosystems and loss of endangered fish species. These power plants create the risk of catastrophic failure, and produce radiactive wastes that must be stored for thosands of years. New natural gas technologies . Using a new generation of turbines, these plants are very efficient and produce less of the pollution caused by other fossil fuels. Electricity produced by sources that collect solar radiation.