The Blackstone Group and Sithe Global are in the process of developing plans for three large, dirty coal-fired power plants in the United States. These include the Desert Rock Energy Project, the Toquop Energy Project, and the River Hills Energy Project.

The plants would produce over 2,500 megawatts of electricity for 50 years and, combined, would emit over 20 million tons of toxic pollutants in the form of airborne emissions and spent coal ash, including nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury, selenium and a variety of heavy metals, while also displacing real opportunities for clean, renewable energy and the jobs that come with them.  Adding insult to injury, over 1 billion tons of CO2 would be released into the air you breathe and the water you drink over the lifetime of the plants.