Posted on 09/03/2018 7:19:41 PM PDT by tcrlaf
It's coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country.
So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan rolling back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.
Trump left one thing out of his remarks, though: northern West Virginia coal country will be ground zero for increased deaths and illnesses from the rollback on regulation of harmful emission from the nation's coal power plants.
An analysis done by his own Environmental Protection Agency concludes that the plan would lead to a greater number of people here dying prematurely, and suffering health problems that they otherwise would not have, than elsewhere in the country, when compared to health impacts of the Obama plan.
Knotts, a coal miner for 35 years, isn't fazed when he hears that warning, a couple of days after Trump's West Virginia rally. He says the last thing people in coal country want is the government slapping down more controls on coal — and the air here in the remote West Virginia mountains seems fine to him.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Did an eighth grader write this article? Did they really get rid of Jayson Blair?
These eco-frauds never stop. What absolute nitwittery . Likely , this fool will remain an idiot until death.
ALL of our problems would be solved IF PDT would issue an edict that EVERYONE must breath every second or so.
Enough people would NOT do it to spite him.
The rest will fall in place.
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I live in “coal country.” I don’t know anyone who isn’t happy to hear the coal industry has been relieved of a regulation or two.
We have a saying: Coal! There’s no fuel like an old fuel.
MORE DEATHS!
LESS FACTS!
This is such nonsense.
For example, EPA’s own data, studied carefully, shows that most bodies of water in the US receive more mercury drifting here from CHINA than from even local power plants. Our “scrubbing” technology as now deployed is quite good.
In fact... Some time back I was looking at levels of mercury-in-fish from lakes all over the Midwest, and one of the lowest is Baldwin Lake in IL. Baldwin Lake is a 2018-acre “perched” cooling lake built for the big coal-fired power plant setting on its shore.
Ironically, a rather high-mercury-in-fish lake a couple hours away is Devils Kitchen Lake, with an almost entirely National Forest watershed, and deep, clear, inviting water. Apparently the mercury is mostly from natural sources.
Good news in search of bad news by the fake news AP.
“Trump’s rollback of pollution rules to hit coal country hard”
Only AP could spin a headline like this that’s exactly 180 degrees from the truth ...
Bureaucrats create facts to support their own agendas, just like all politicians. If Al Gore ran the EPA, imagine the studies and crap that would be spewing forth.
Just go away, Seth Borenstein. Like the rest of your Trump-hating media colleagues, you have no credibility. Besides, what do you care if a few West Virginia deplorables get sick? It would give you an opportunity to demonstrate your smirk.
If Trump's EPA changes cause real environmental problems, then those will be addressed in a cost-effective manner that does not put thousands of people out of work.
No input from you or your worthless leftist colleagues will ever be needed.
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Please note that this idiot millennial enthusiast is not a scientist, has no scientific background and is in fact a mere scientifically illiterate mouthpiece for the totalitarian left so beloved by the editors of the Slimes.
Chicken Little was a radical nutcase DemocRAT......
The writer of this article cannot be serious!
So many deep state lifers entrenched.
Right on...
That is correct!
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