More pollution we can thank the Bush administration and – more importantly – big business for. Look, I’m far from a green eco-dude, but it is criminal the sort of looting and pillaging we allow big business to do to our planet.
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October 5th, 2009
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I live about two miles from one of these wet storage facilities. TVA could have changed to much safer dry storage systems 30 years ago and saved a ton of money, but after the disaster in Tennessee they’re finally doing it at a far more expensive time.
This is why we need public financing of political campaigns. Big coal to big Pharma are destroying this country every time they write a check to a politician
Don’t just blame W. reagan was the last president who cut emissions. Clinton was particularly non-helping (until the dems were voted out and a raft of stuff was done for the reps to undo when they got in).
I’ve always pointed to the TVA as an example of a major govt project that works. This was disppointing to put it mildly.
The coal industry is ravaging Southern Appalachia. The coal ash problem is just one of it’s dirty little secrets. Mountaintop removal destroys local habitat, trods over property rights, and actually results in fewer jobs in the coal industry. Stream fill is destroying the watersheds of Appalachia, the same water sheds that feed the communities along the Atlantic coast that are so hungry for cheap electricity.
Most of the largest owners are absentee landlords. Yet they pump money into local elections to make sure that coal remains king.
There’s no such thing as clean coal.
I watched it, and I wished there was more than generalized statements of increased toxicity. And not just some random stat, but comparative stuff.
Like X times more mercury than normal soil, or anything.
It’s just so dumbed down that it doesn’t help somebody with a scientific bent weigh that risk against all the other risks we face.
The coal industry is ravaging Southern Appalachia…Mountaintop removal destroys local habitat, trods over property rights, and actually results in fewer jobs in the coal industry.
Increased regulation of the coal industry would be a net benefit in terms of Global Warming, local coal producing environments, and local coal producing areas’ jobs and economy in general. Tragically, those players can’t compete with the money from Big Coal management. How sad.