TITLE

Protesters demonstrate outside D.C. power plant

AUTHOR(S)
Geiselman, Bruce
PUB. DATE
March 2009
SOURCE
Waste & Recycling News;3/16/2009, Vol. 14 Issue 23, p3
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article reports that a demonstration was organized by an estimated 2,500 protesters outside the Capitol Power Plant in Washington, D.C., for nearly four hours on March 2, 2009. GreenPeace organizers have called this demonstration the largest display of civil disobedience on the climate crisis in U.S. history. The protesters, who want the plant to stop burning coal to reduce carbon emissions, blocked all five entrances to the power plant.
ACCESSION #
40211163

Tags: DEMONSTRATIONS (Collective behavior);  POWER plants;  GREENPEACE International;  CIVIL disobedience;  CLIMATIC changes

 

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