How clean is clean coal?

A video on the great coal myth

Posted by David Roberts at 12:05 PM on 23 May 2008

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The new but already-going-gangbusters Washington Independent has teamed up with the also new and also gangbusters American News Project to put together a video called "How clean is clean coal?" Good stuff:

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Any one who scoffs at the idea American energy industries, like most all its industries, are not run by a cabal of fascists needs to go to his or her local library and borrow "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," by clean coal spokesman and unabashed fascist, John Perkins. Wouldn't America be such a nicer place to live and breathe if Congress had passed laws and instituted codes to enforce them against fascism when it had the chance in 1934 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler? I might be able to hop in my hydrogen-powered Mini and head for a Memorial day weekend get-away at my choice of a preponderance of alt-energy run B&Bs in one of several vacation spots instead of having to fill my car with premium petrol while I silently mourn the deaths of all the innocents who've died in wars we've waged my entire 46-year-long life and beyond for gas and petrol-based products and wonder all weekend about how green the proprietors of my accommodation are.

by Green Greenie at 4:48 PM on 23 May 2008

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