Nighttime is made for the worst dumping to be allowed unseen, piers are made to hide outfall pipes, three martini lunches with politicians are done to grease the skids, quid pro quo is the currency. No one is held accountable.

Just in case you missed seeing the guy who claims that coal and mountain top removal is good for the environment:



My apologies for the barf bags that must be employed at the sight of that soulless fascist. And now, back to our regularly scheduled program, er, topic:

Gov. Chris Christie must support EPA-ordered coal plant cleanup, not partisan politics

By Star-Ledger Editorial Board - November 04, 2011



New Jersey governors, both Democratic and Republican, have long pressed for a cleanup of coal plants in other states that are spewing toxins into our air.

Until now. Gov. Chris Christie broke that streak yesterday. He said the Environmental Protection Agency is already doing too much. He said the federal government has too much power. He said he was "inclined" to reject calls to support the coal plant cleanup ordered by the EPA.

This is a day to fly the flags at half-staff. Because hundreds of people in New Jersey will die prematurely every year if Christie gets his way. Many more will suffer from heart attacks and asthma.

That’s not melodrama, unfortunately. The EPA has ordered a cleanup of power plants in 27 states, most of them to our west and south. The order will cost New Jersey almost nothing because our power plants are already much cleaner than most.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/11/gov_chris_christie_must_suppor.html

Looks like Chris didn't listen then, and he's not going to listen now, as he takes his orders directly from the Kochs:

Audio: Chris Christie Lets Loose at Secret Koch Brothers Confab

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/audio-chris-christie-koch-brothers-seminar

In our exclusive recordings, David Koch introduces the New Jersey governor as "my kind of guy" and "a true political hero..."

On the morning of June 26, Chris Christie, New Jersey's flamboyant, tough-talking Republican governor, appeared on NBC's Meet The Press. He then jetted out to Colorado, delivered a keynote speech at Charles and David Koch's ultra-exclusive seminar at the Ritz-Carlton resort near Vail, and returned home the same night, all without breathing a word about his adventure to his constituents.

In Part 1 of this report, we gave you the inside scoop on the Kochs' top-secret strategy meeting, where hundreds of wealthy patrons were urged to open their wallets for what Charles Koch described as "the mother of all wars"—the effort to unseat President Obama. We also told you we'd obtained exclusive audio recordings from the event. And we promised to reveal the identity of the main keynote speaker.

With security extraordinary on the seminar's opening night—audio speakers around the periphery of the outdoor dining pavilion blasted out static to thwart eavesdroppers—David Koch introduced Gov. Christie as "my kind of guy." (The two had previously met in private at Koch's New York City office, he revealed.) Before long, seminar attendees were roaring with laughter as Christie regaled them over dessert, telling them how, in his first weeks in office, he'd exercised extraordinary executive powers to impound billions of dollars in planned spending. ("The good news for all of you and for me," he said, "is that the governorship in New Jersey is the most powerful constitutional governorship in America.&quot ...

to hue:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251337870

PLEASE go to the link and read the rest of what he promised them to their cheers, it's much, much worse. Amazed there has not been more outrage about the policies this man is going to enact in his state, and would do so as POTUS. And yet he's 'still a contender.'

It seems there's something magic about radioactive pollution.

Sigh.

It's all bad. A toxin is a toxin, radioactive or not, and the deadliest toxins don't scream out to the radiation detectors.