With so much attention now on health care reform, yet another study indicates air pollution is stupid in more ways than one
Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants . . . can adversely affect a child's intelligence quotient or IQ.
Per the EPA, the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), a less than stellar effort for clean air from coal power plants,
will provide health and environmental benefits valued at more than 25 timesthe cost of compliance
does not come close to fully valuing the public health benefits of using less wasteful, renewable energy, rather than coal.
This diary looks at Obama and the latest efforts to curb the hidden costs of using coal.
ACESthe latest U.S. green-Wash effort to curb global warming, is estimated by the EPA to virtually maintainthe U.S. use of coal, the largest source of greenhouse gasses, at the 2006 level until 2025.
Discussing the dearth of Obama's leadership on this issue, Bill Moyer notes the ECONOMIST magazine observation that
rather than shaping public opinion, he is running scared of it.
Hat tip to Coal Tattoo on Friday for displaying a black resident of Perry County, Alabama, where the waste from the TVA impoundment disaster may be disposed, who says
If we can’t get environmental justice enforced under the administration of a black president than we ain’t never going to get any justice!
He might be dismissed as a NIMBY, but he may as well be speaking for the world.
As Peabrain Energy Corp. of St. Louis, the largest coal company in the world, spends $820,000lobbying in the first quarter of 2009, and Wall Street is drooling over another potential money-making bubble/meltdown from cap-and-trade of greenhouse gasses, it is clear coal will continue to hold sway with the Obama administration (and Congress) and take its hidden, heavy toll on the health of current and future generations.