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A letters-to-the-editor column includes a letter from Toni Reale, Southeast Coastal Organizer for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, addressing sea-level rise in Charleston and advocating against a proposed Santee Cooper coal-fired power plant. Reale calls for energy efficiency improvements, investment in clean energy resources like offshore wind, and political action to combat climate change and pollution.

First, we can do no harm. The proposed Santee Cooper 1,320-megawatt, dirty, coal-fired power plant will spew out tons of global-warming pollution a year. We cannot afford to put any more pollution into our atmosphere. Second, one of the best things we can do to reduce pollution also will help us save on our electricity bills. Everyone should focus immediately on using energy more wisely by installing programmable thermostats, better windows and doors, and efficient insulation and appliances. Third, we can invest in clean homegrown energy resources. South Carolina has great potential for offshore wind power, as well as the ability to put farmers to work growing energy for our future.
Toni Reale

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