I guess they don't care about clean water and air or about the planet either.

Of those poor red state voters. They can't get away with it in the blue states though.

small dairy farmers (my dad fought it for years but had to get a different job-just could not compete with the big mega farmers anymore).

'Cause you overwhelmingly voted for tRump and the GOP!

Well, executive order, maybe.

For the first time in decades we saw a reduction in Acid Mine Drainage under Obama
and now this?




BTW this will not bring back one coal job. The power plants have all switched from coal
to gas ..... cheaper, cleaner, and much easier to use.

To strip mine

The power companies have spent billions in switching from coal to gas and they are not
going back. Trump also told the people of the W.V., PA, and OH that the steel jobs are coming
back too which was a lie.


* including Mt. Top Removal.

Coal is simply no longer as feasable source of energy. what is going to happen when the miners find out their jobs still aren't coming back and their water is polluted?

Probably still luv em sum Trump!

That sludge in the water will not only help it go down better, it will cure constipation as well.

You can't cure stupid, but this way we might reduce it through attrition.

From hikers and campers who prefer not to go slogging through polluted streams, better kiss them goodbye. Oh yeah, and those fish frys y'all like to have at church and the local VFW, guess you can buy your fish at the grocery store like the rest of us. Short sited dumbasses.

.... brook trout in those streams and in many states they stock those
streams & rivers w/trout and muskies too. But still they can go and fish
for bass in ponds and then go and get their heavy metals by catching
and then eating catfish from the rivers (bottom feeders).

But as the local folks' worlds go to shit they will blame liberals for their lot in
life because that is what the coal bosses, their pastor, Fox News, the
NRA and local politicans tell them and they still slurp that shit right up.

Really pretty country but the people there have been lied to and fucked with
for generations and getting them to understand things in a different way is
a really hard thing to do.

Which is what happened to an alarmingly large segment of the West Virginia population after the Elk River spill. And the last I heard, they aren't ready for another such disaster.

[url]http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/report-two-years-after-elk-river-chemical-spill-west-virginia-american-water-wvaw-unprepared-to-deal-with-another-major-crisis-300201022.html[/url]

As the second anniversary nears of the January 9, 2014 chemical spill that left more than 300,000 Charleston area residents without water for more than a week, privately owned West Virginia American Water (WVAW) has not taken the necessary steps to prepare for a future crisis, hold down rates, avoid major service disruptions, and invest in ailing infrastructure, according to a major new report from Boston Action Research (BAR), a project of the Civil Society Institute (CSI).

[url]http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/26/499307717/settlement-deal-reached-in-2014-west-virginia-chemical-spill[/url]

West Virginia residents have settled part of a civil lawsuit over a chemical spill that contaminated drinking water for thousands of people in 2014, according to The Associated Press.

On Wednesday, court officials told the news service that lawyers representing residents and businesses in and around Charleston, W.Va., had reached a settlement with Eastman Chemical Co. over its involvement in the January 2014 spill of a chemical used for cleaning coal. Terms of the settlement must be approved by a judge.

The chemical, called methylcyclohexane methanol, or crude MCHM, caused nausea, vomiting and eye irritations that led to infections after it entered the water supply after it entered the water supply. The spill prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency for nine counties, and water was cut off to about 300,000 people for days.

no matter how much they mess up the streams...... LNG is too cheap, and cleaner,,,, and we are drowning in it! Gone the way of the buggy whip makers!

when you can kill people as well.

Fuck.

Coal is dead and nothing the GOP can do will bring it back to life

It's dead as a doornail. Coal accounts for .12% of the workforce - fewer than 80,000 miners mine coal. It's nothing.