Giving head to a dying industry. Like the rest of their benefactors, the GOP, is a political faction that is so far behind the rest of the country, as well as the rest of the world, that they actually believe they are ahead...

I will never watch Morning Joe again, and have on word for them, SHAME.

I listened to three minutes of this propaganda and to serve up this platitudes of disingenuous hypocrisy is amazing of the facts, which this industry generates in heavy metal discharges coming out of the stacks at coal fired plants and the ground.
They should go inside a plant and see the mills that have steel balls crushing the materiel / coal to be burned and the dust being generated, and the height of the boiler to create steam to turn the turbine, by using water from a stream river mixed with the cooling tower chemicals.
Then instead of sitting on conch go and spend a week at creek near one of these facilities and take a sample to see whats in it, then to go a thousand miles down wind and see what heavy metals are in a lake which is down wind of this and other oil and coal industries----amazing. Lets put on the pink slippers and follow the COAL, OIL, GAS and the Cat industry giant trying to dismantle there UNION workforce by outsourcing jobs and then they can all follow the industry yellow brick road and say everything is just fine -------see our new rolling hills, with grass

of course. Look they brag about reclaiming 700 acres. Well, 700 acres here in eastern Kentucky would represent about .0001% of the total amount of both strip mining and active strip mines. I spent over twenty years overseeing the Abandoned Mine Program for a major engineering firm out of Lexington, mostly arguing over short cuts and political contributions to get those reclamation jobs (where the terrain is unforgiving). These guys actually won awards for their "environmental" work in E. Ky. Glad to be retired

.... that I looked at back in 1980 today still run yellow orange with acid mine drainage even though the
mines stopped producing coal 40 years ago.

Coal kills end of story and no amount of money and p.r. changes that. Algonquin Park in Ontario is
still beautiful but you can forget about fishing because of acid rain.

BTW I could only get through 90 seconds of that awful video.

I hope you can enjoy your retirement and I hope you don't have black lung, but as I was watching a show on Alex Wagner on the hunger in the region and when I was growing up, my mother came from the region and she use to tell me it was the beautiful to look at but underneath the soil and the political shenanigans it was something else, the region is so poor she said her and her brother and sisters use to have to sleep together in the winter to say warm and the money to make a living on in the 30's-60's and even today is absolutely disgusting

times...which value model do you think the grateful media awash in this cash will prefer?