This thing in West Virginia - was the toxic chemical released a chemical that the greenies had insisted on to make coal more environmentally acceptable? I haven’t heard anyone say why this treatment was being used.
It was said that the chem used/leaked was required to scrub the coal to reduce sulpher emissions. In other words, it is an EPA requirement.
“I haven’t heard anyone say why this treatment was being used.”
Probably because some biggie campaign donor has a company that makes it...
What is 4-methylcyclohexane methanol?
The compound involved in the West Virginia chemical spill is used to rid coal of impurities before it is burned to generate power.
“Short version – it is used in removing some sulfur from coal,” David Bayless, director of Ohio University’s Ohio Coal Research Center, wrote in an e-mail to the Monitor. “That is a separation process ... usually done at the mine before the coal is shipped to the utility to burn.”