Foreshadowing the Bush Legacy on Coal

The Writing Corner by Beth Wellington | Jan. 8, 2009 (Opinion)

To assess what has been handed down from his [George W. Bush] eight years in office is doable. To write about what will last long- term is harder. One exception, though, comes to mind: here in Appalachian, we face a permanent hole in our vistas (and our lives) in the wake of so-called mountaintop removal mining (MTR). So-called because I prefer to call it Mountain Range Destruction. This type of mining pulverizes whole mountains for their underlying coal ... Full Story »

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 by Gary Clark - Jan. 9, 2009

The author details her extensive previous exposition of coal industry damages to the Appalachian mountains, with numerous useful links. She proceeds to detail the affronts to environment through favors bestowed on vested energy interests by the Bush administration, including the most recent, the massive toxic coal waste flood under the supervision of the TVA. A thoughtful ending; she asks if it is time to turn our time and energy away from Bush's "Legacy" to concentrate on holding Obama accountable.

The "inclusiveness" of business oriented views in the Obama administration will demand constant push from environmental voices in order to counter the coal-oil- nuclear lobbies influence.

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), “we lost an opportunity to become less dependent on importing oil, on using fossil fuels, which have been a threat to our national security and the well-being of the planet.”

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