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 ...
Gist of the article: "These stupid hicks are too dumb to know that being unemployed, or "Not burdened with the responsibility of a job" as Nancy Pelosi would say, is GOOD FOR THEM!
(Rolls eyes...)
I cannot believe that this really is a serious news article from AP...
AP is not in the ‘serious news article’ business.
They discarded that business model many moons ago.
LOL “His own EPA” sure...when was this study done and by who?
So many deep state lifers entrenched.
“Clean coal...It’s what’s for dinner.” Either that of beef, I forget.
From what I have read on this topic, emissions from coal fired plants now have advanced filtration systems removing all particulates. The smoke you see is steam (water) and filtered coal air which is not causing deaths.
One problem. Many plants have modernized with clean coal technology or even worse for miners, converted to much cleaner and less expensive natural gas.
HA! I’ve seldom read such hilarious, hysterical propaganda!
Seth Borenstein has been peddling this crap for years.
Seth Borenstein is a moron.
that is some mental gymnastics right there.
One thing they did NOT take into account: poor people do not live as long. The wealth coal brings in helps people live longer because of that.
If they really cared they would tell homosexuals that their lifestyle is far more dangerous than living in coal country.
Really.
I thought that the big chunks of sky plummeting earthward would kill off most of the folks first.
What a bunch of horse pucky!
Once again; I shudda read ahead...
Memo To Seth Borenstein:
Click the Pic
What’s better, A prosperous and possibly shorter life or a clean environment with no job, depression, despair and opiods and meth to ease the pain?
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.
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And it is fine.
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