Coal Industry Exploits Kids To Spout Coal Propaganda
Coal Industry Exploits Kids To Spout Coal Propaganda
Americans For Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) — the coal industry front group that has sponsored multiple presidential debates and whose members paid for an advertisement comparing the governor of Kansas to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — has sunk to new lows.
On a website, LearnAboutCoal.org, ABEC uses cute young children to make the case for coal. Upon loading the site, viewers may encounter a cheerful “Daniella” who says, “I may be a kid, but we’re a lot alike. We both want affordable, reliable energy and a clean environment! Well, luckily, we can have our cake — and eat it too.”
Or viewers may encounter “Adam,” who says: “I’m pretty stoked about the future of energy in this country. One reason for that is that I’ve taken the time to learn more about American coal.” The site includes four “commercials” of kids marketing coal. ABEC’s scripts for the children ensure that Daniella and Adam’s “friends” who pepper the site are just as enthusiastic about coal as they are:
– ‘Sarah’: Sometimes it’s okay to rely upon other countries to get some of our energy, but it’s better to get it here at home. That’s why I’m glad to know that we have a 250 year supply of American coal available right here in America. … I’m doing my homework. You do yours too.
– ‘Connor’: Did you know that electricity from coal is half the cost of other fuels? Hey, look at the facts and you’ll agree. Electricity from coal? It’s a bargain.
– ‘Luke’: “Coal will remain the dominant fuel for electricity generation in our country for at least the next several decades — maybe even beyond that. … Is coal a fuel for America’s future? Actually, we can’t afford for it not to be. Learn about coal! You might surprise yourself.”
Yesterday, the Physicians for Social Responsibility blasted ABEC for its unethical exploitation of children to shill for an energy source that causes so many health risks for kids:
Coal-fired power plants also are the single largest source of mercury emissions in the U.S. Pregnant women and children are especially vulnerable to the toxic effects of mercury, which can damage the brain and cause learning disorders and impairments in motor function. No parent would allow their child to be exposed to such danger; yet, across the country, as many as 600,000 children are born each year with increased risk of developmental disorders because of mercury exposure in the womb.
As young “Adam” says on the ABEC website, “I bet you found out some things about coal you didn’t know before.” Indeed, the site reveals just how low the coal industry will stoop to disseminate propaganda.
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February 14th, 2008 at 4:45 pmviewers may encounter “Adam,†who says: “I’m pretty stoked about the future of energy in this country. One reason for that is that I’ve taken the time to learn more about American coal.â€
Do they really expect anyone to buy this crap-in-a-sack?
I don’t know any teenager who would admit to being “stoked about the future of energy in this country”.
I wouldn’t criticize the coal industry for being dishonest; they’re just doing what any business or trade group will do. they’re trying to portray themselves or their products in the best possible light.
The thing I would fault them on is doing it so clumsily, and thinking we’re all a bunch of spoon-fed morons.
After all, we’re not ALL Frank M or Troll John Kerry.
February 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pmI’m not so sure about this one folks. They hired actors. Would it be wrong for the Sierra Club to employ kids in ads? Let me know when bush uses kids to sell torture…
February 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pmAfter all, we’re not ALL Frank M or Troll John Kerry.
Comment by ralph the wonder llama — February 14, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
No, but corporations do certainly count on the ignoamuses like our braindead trolls to catapult the propaganda.
February 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pmWould it be wrong for the Sierra Club to employ kids in ads? Let me know when bush uses kids to sell torture…
Comment by Bobwurst — February 14, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
Would the Sierra Club lie like the coal industry does?
February 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pmI know my kids used to discuss energy and finance when they were in between commercials
February 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pmand after 250 years, what?
February 14th, 2008 at 4:51 pmRight ralph,
I’m suprized they didn’t have “Troy McLure”. Hi I’m Troy McLure, you may remember me from such ad campaigns as ‘you can’t say nookular without saying you’ and “Global warming means nice tans for us all!’
February 14th, 2008 at 4:51 pmMercury? Isn’t that the stuff that BushCo wanted to remove from the SERIOUSLY F’ING DANGEROUS list?
Oh, right.
Nevermind.
February 14th, 2008 at 4:52 pmWould it be wrong for the Sierra Club to employ kids in ads? Let me know when bush uses kids to sell torture…
Comment by Bobwurst — February 14, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
Would the Sierra Club lie like the coal industry does?
Comment by Lefty Patriot
No, but the message is the problem, not the messenger.
February 14th, 2008 at 4:52 pmi think it’s both, bobwurst…
February 14th, 2008 at 5:07 pmpimping kids to lie… that’s pretty low…
Al-Qaeda exploit children by turning them into bloodthirsty killers:
February 14th, 2008 at 5:09 pmLINK – http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=471_1202306092
Comment by Charles James Napier — February 14, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
Still didn;t see the Al Qaeda insignia, chuck. I think you’re lying, they look like Blackwater to me.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:13 pmi think it’s both, bobwurst…
pimping kids to lie… that’s pretty low…
Comment by katy
First off, using pimping in the present climate is dangerous, and I agree, but where is TP going to draw the line? Most advertizing bend the truth, and a lot is outright lies. is this worse than using kids to sell sugarcoated breakfast crap to other kids? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending the industry here, but let’s be honest, do we need to pretend the problem is the kids in the ad? Would the ad be ok if it was grownups?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pmi think it’s both, bobwurst…
pimping kids to lie… that’s pretty low…
Comment by katy
Shame on you miss katy. Wash your mouth out with soap. Didn’t you know that if you are on the left side of the aisle, you can’t use the “p” word. Remember David Shuster almost lost his job over it. Funny thing, though, on the right hand side of the aisle, the “p” word is just fine.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:15 pmGeorge Bush exploits American sociopaths by turning them into bloodthirsty killers. Some get burned to death and hung from bridges. The Iraqis can;t see the difference between Al Qaeda and US mercenary murderers. Dead is dead.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:15 pmSo how do we know that is Al Qaeda, chuck? We shouild believe a liar like you?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pmI’m not so sure about this one folks. They hired actors. Would it be wrong for the Sierra Club to employ kids in ads? Let me know when bush uses kids to sell torture…
Comment by Bobwurst — February 14, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
I have to agree on this one. During Live Earth they used kids in their ads. I find the ads despicable because of the message they’re trying to get across. How they try to get that message across isn’t that important to me.
BTW, I am a card-carrying Sierra Club member.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pmOk, I quit. When I find myself on the same side of any line with charles bundy dahlmer I know there’s something seriously wrong.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:17 pmObservation: It seems that those who employ the term, “balanced”, are always the ones trying to put something over on the rest of us.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:17 pmAl-Qaeda exploit children by turning them into bloodthirsty killers:
LINK – http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=471_1202306092
Comment by Charles James Napier
Fool tool troll napier seems to think that if it keeps spamming this blog we will some how begin to believe that these people really are AQ. It’s too bad that they have no way to prove that they are AQ.
It has such a pea brain it can’t fathom the fact that George Bush has made many more “bloodthirsty killers” than any supposed AQ could make in their lifetimes. Something about destroying a country that tends to make them hate you.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:18 pmUnless these children can intelligently speak to the issues they have been scripted to tell then they should not be used to influence the thinking of other children.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:19 pmMaybe I’m just a dummy, but I thought the point of the post was at least partly a dig at the wingnuts who were screaming a few months back about advertisements that used kids to raise support for SCHIP. No?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pmC’mon TP, keep your adjectives straight – - Big Oil spouts, Big Coal spews.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:21 pmI think everybody uses cuteness to sell their product — that is, when they don’t use sex (sorry if I’m giving the coal industry ideas here). Bush used kids to sell his “no stem-cell research” agenda (remember the snowflake babies), and the pro-SCHIP forces used kids to try to get support for the SCHIP expansion (incorrectly, I might add — instead of using kids already benefiting from SCHIP, they should have used kids who were screwed unless the expansion passed — ah, but that’s another thread). So I don’t think we can register shock about the exploitation of kids in advertising with a straight face.
That said — I think this crapola is crapola no matter whose mouth it’s coming out of. And perhaps the best counter-argument is for environmentalists to use kids for their message as well. Show what mercury can do to children.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:22 pmI am beginning to think our children are not so easily fooled, for they are the ones asking bush, ‘why do you torture?” questioning rover.
At least they are asking, most of us are just counting down the days.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:22 pmpimping… pimping… pimping….
it’s what they do… all over the place…
hey, it’s the aughts… grow up!
:-]
February 14th, 2008 at 5:23 pmMaybe Sarah, Connor and Luke don’t know that Solar Power has been brought down to the same price per kilowatt as coal. And soon it will go lower.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:23 pmMaybe I’m just a dummy, but I thought the point of the post was at least partly a dig at the wingnuts who were screaming a few months back about advertisements that used kids to raise support for SCHIP. No?
Comment by gummitch
I completely missed that aspect. I guess my response to this would be that unless the Corporate Facists for Coal or whatever they call themselves had their undies in a bunch about the SCHIP ads, that argument is a bit of a strawman along the lines of “clinton did it”
Now I’ve dug myself a hole…
February 14th, 2008 at 5:23 pmSee its only wrong when liberals use children to ask for health insurance, but when conservatives use children to promote pollution thats ok.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:24 pmLefty Patriot,
Since when have al-Qaeda worn uniforms?
Your point is completely asinign.
And why is it that this website never posts anything about the barbarity of our Islamist enemies?
If one were to get their news from TP alone they would never know that there even is such a thing as radical Islam.
Are you people really as stupid as you seem or are you simply blinded by you hatreds?
My guess is a little of both.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:24 pmperhaps the best counter-argument is for environmentalists to use kids for their message as well. Show what mercury can do to children.
Comment by missmolly
This is an honest use of kids, and would work. So it won’t happen…
February 14th, 2008 at 5:25 pmI guess they couldn’t find three kids born with birth defects to sell coal power?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:26 pmAnd why is it that this website never posts anything about the barbarity of our Islamist enemies?
Spelling is never Charles Manson Bundy’s strong point: Is it complaining about the lack of coverage about the Islamofacist war on French Elephant stories, or is he accusing Bin Laden of playing with decadent American Dolls?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pmAre you people really as stupid as you seem or are you simply blinded by you hatreds?
My guess is a little of both.
Comment by Charles James Napier — February 14, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Yes. We’re just dumb and blind. So you really don’t want to hang around here; it might rub off and you clearly have no smarts to spare.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:29 pmCatapult the COAL!
February 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pmCJN – 5:24 p – We people are just sick of lies, our military deaths, our country being ruined by a few corrupt, sick ego driven maniacs. We people have the courage to speak up and defend YOUR rights.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:33 pmWe people have the courage to speak up and defend YOUR rights.
Comment by texaslady
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There is nothing courageous about you or this website.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:35 pmGnarly Charlie would rather see AQ (whomsoever they might, or might not actually be) use coal to burn their captives alive (or dead, so to speak)
February 14th, 2008 at 5:36 pmre 31:
Here’s a serious response to your post. Three are two reasons why there are no posts about Islamic barbarity here.
One is that no one, no one thinks that Islamic barbarity is good, cool, acceptable etc. JNot on the right, not on the left, not in the middle. Just there are no stories here about necrophilia. There’s no point in decrying the mutually agreed upon outrages against humanity
Two, read the mission statement below for this site:
“Think Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization. With the blog, CAPAF seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies.”
If you still don’t understand why there are no stories about islamic barbarity, ask for more clarifcation. If you really want stories about islamic barbarity, get your buddy rush to endorse it.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:36 pmIs charles napier rilelly as much of a flamer as charles nelson rielly?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:38 pm38 – we at least are trying to do something what are you doing ?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:40 pmBobwurst,
…CAPAF seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and “policies.â€
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And by “progressive” you mean ignoring any injustice, however barbaric or extreme, that cannot be blamed of Bush or Republicans.
How liberal of you.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:41 pmIs charles napier rilelly as much of a flamer as charles nelson rielly?
Comment by Bobwurst
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If I were a “flamer” would that bother you?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:41 pmHi Charles, how you doing?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:43 pmIf you don’t mind, I am just sort of curious. What motivates folks like you to come to places like this just to complain about places like this? Thank you in advance for the clarification
It would’n't bother me, but I wouldn’t be suprized larry.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:43 pmComment by Charles James Napier — February 14, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
Did you have something to contribute about the coal industry, or advertising or something vaguely connected to the subject of the thread? Or are you just here to derail the conversation and insult people?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:43 pmCJN – the thread is about using children to promote pollution not your sexual identitiy.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:44 pmSarah>? Connor? Sarah Connor? Luke? Skywalker?
Where’s the imagination in drawing these names from Terminator and Star Wars???
Come on Madison Ave, you can do better than that?!!!!
February 14th, 2008 at 5:44 pmre 45:
Don’t take it personally, he also stands in the rain and complains about the weather.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:44 pmSolar Energy ‘Revolution’ Brings Green Power Closer
The holy grail of renewable energy came a step closer yesterday as thousands of mass-produced wafer-thin solar cells printed on aluminium film rolled off a production line in California, heralding what British scientists called “a revolution†in generating electricity.
The solar panels produced by a Silicon Valley start-up company, Nanosolar, are radically different from the kind that European consumers are increasingly buying to generate power from their own roofs. Printed like a newspaper directly on to aluminium foil, they are flexible, light and, if you believe the company, expected to make it as cheap to produce electricity from sunlight as from coal.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/30/6071/
February 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pmComment by 2MillionLightYearsToAndromeda — February 14, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
Sorry, but Charlie in only interested if he can use these solar panels to burn AQ terrorists alive…
February 14th, 2008 at 5:47 pmComment by dbadass,
Acquisitiveness I suppose….or just plain curosity.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:47 pmAnd by “progressive†you mean ignoring any injustice, however barbaric or extreme, that cannot be blamed of Bush or Republicans.
How liberal of you.
Comment by Charles James Napier
This post proves one of two things Clarles nelson rielly either can’t read, or doesn’t have the intelligence to address the issues at hand. No one is demanding that it agree, if it wants to defend the coal industry, it could, like I did earlier in the thread. But this one is too stupid to do that so instead it whines that we don’t kiss bush’s ass like it does.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:48 pmCJN – the thread is about using children to promote pollution not your sexual identitiy.
Comment by texaslady
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I didn’t bring it up.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:48 pmI brought it up, because charles nelson rielly can’t figure out how converse with adults.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:49 pmAcquisitiveness I suppose….or just plain curosity.
Comment by Charles James Napier — February 14, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Than why act like such a condescending tool once you arrive?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:52 pmthese two kids are sell outs
ha ha stupid kids, you’re going to have to pay for our unnecessary war (with interest)
have fun sucking carbon
February 14th, 2008 at 5:52 pmCJN 5:41 you didn’t refer to yourself as a flamer ? Anyway, can we please talk about the subject and not you ?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:53 pmI stopped posting here a few months back because people here were making racist jokes about my wife who happens to be Asian.
Now I come back and I’m called a “flamer”, by which I assume you mean to imply that I’m gay.
I see things haven’t changed much around here.
I’m gone.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:54 pmAcquisitiveness I suppose….or just plain curosity.
Comment by Charles James Napier — February 14, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
What are you trying to acquire?
February 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pmComment by Charles James Napier — February 14, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
Well that is unfortunate and I certainly don’t approve. Did you come in in the past with the same attitude you have employed today? If so that might have had something to do with it. Anyway, take care Charle James Napier
February 14th, 2008 at 5:57 pm5:54 – Hey those were your words not mine. I just want to hear comments on using children to promote pollution, why is it wrong to show true kids with health problems. But ok to show kids spouting coal.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:00 pmAcquisitiveness I suppose….or just plain curosity.
oooooh charlie… i’m sooo impressed… such big words…
you don’t know what that does to me! oooooooooh! oh! yes!
thank you…
but you really should use the CORRECT big word…
it could’ve been so much better… for both of us…
ac·quis·i·tive [uh-kwiz-i-tiv]
–adjective
tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
but then again…
February 14th, 2008 at 6:07 pmkaty, he really meant Inquisitionitive, didn’t he?
February 14th, 2008 at 6:08 pmComment by Charles James Napier — February 14, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
Let me correct the original post for the off-topic trolling tool of Republicans.
The thread is about the coal industry using kids to push for pollution, not for the Right-Wing Talking Points ™ that Napier wants it to be about. I have a solution for the off-topic trolling tool of republicans.
Start your own Blog. Call it “Islamic Extremists Exposed for America”. There, you’ll do your own bit for the blogosphere, and people can decide if they wish to go there or not.
Motion to alter TP’s article selection? I think I can safely say that just got denied.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:08 pmMaybe Sarah, Connor and Luke don’t know that Solar Power has been brought down to the same price per kilowatt as coal. And soon it will go lower.
Comment by 2MillionLightYearsToAndromeda
Links, please. I am a big Solar Power supporter, but I understand its economic limitations, given the actual power system we have: big power plants feeding everybody instead of local small plants independent of grids.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:14 pmI love the so called “blog where you can share your opinions…” Looking at the titles of the blog entries, I don’t see a whole lot that was shared by the general public.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:16 pmKaty,
There are two definitions of acquisitive.
ac·quis·i·tive:
#2 – Tending to acquire and retain ideas or information:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/acquisitive
So long folks.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:23 pmoh! RU! …
whew! that’s twice!
thanks!
February 14th, 2008 at 6:24 pmwell, charlie, you bursted my bubble… so long…
February 14th, 2008 at 6:25 pmbut i did learn something new… thanks.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:26 pmhey, i don’t do it much… troll feeding that is…
February 14th, 2008 at 6:27 pmforgive me…
So long folks.
Comment by Charles James Napier — February 14, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
You already said that 30 minutes back. That must be a really slow browser.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:27 pmDon’t mention it.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:27 pmHey guys! I’m “Adam” and I’m stoked about mountain top removal and all the totally awsome environmental benefits to America that come with it!!!
Did you know that only the terrorists are pro-mountain? I’m doing my homework on the super coolness of mountain-top removal, now you go do yours too…
February 14th, 2008 at 6:29 pmLet’s do some homework:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining
February 14th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Gnarly Charlie must be on
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February 14th, 2008 at 6:36 pmHey Charlie, Ol Kimmee in N. Korea is starving his population, where’s the cool video of starving Koreans?
February 14th, 2008 at 6:38 pmPlug your zipcode in here:
http://www.ilovemountains.org/
February 14th, 2008 at 6:42 pmJeez, why not just have cigarettes in these kids hands as well, it’s only slightly more offensive than this BS ad campaign
February 14th, 2008 at 7:10 pmThese Republican Valentine’s Day Cards are CLASSIC!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7886653@N08/sets/72157603912749605/
February 14th, 2008 at 7:12 pmcome back and I’m called a “flamerâ€, by which I assume you mean to imply that I’m gay.
I see things haven’t changed much around here.
I’m gone.
Comment by Charles James Napier
Good, when you come back again try having something to say about the topic at hand and I promise I won’t question your sexual orientation. I seriously doubt that anyone, who isn’t a troll, said anything racist about your wife. But since you’ve already left, twice, I guess you won’t be reading this.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:15 pmWeren’t our dumbass trolls screaming about using kids in the Health Insurance Ads just a month or so ago?
Hypocrites….not surprised at all.
Buck Fush
February 14th, 2008 at 7:36 pmIs everyone here really not aware that the coal industry has been running these commercials for over a year now?
February 14th, 2008 at 7:45 pmhttp://www.learnaboutcoal.org/Blog/ViewComments.cfm?BlogId=30
Links, please. I am a big Solar Power supporter, but I understand its economic limitations, given the actual power system we have: big power plants feeding everybody instead of local small plants independent of grids.
Comment by Juan C. — February 14, 2008 @ 6:14 pm
See my post #51.
Also…Here’s another link that says in 3-5 years solar will be on par with coal when comparing costs per kilowatt. When you factor in the jobs it will create, the pollution it WON’T CREATE, the wars it’ll eliminate it’s far less expensive TODAY.
http://www.nvdems.com/go/in-the-media/energy:-coal-plants-not-needed,-group-says/
February 14th, 2008 at 7:59 pmI was contacted today by this astroturf group asking if I wanted to send a letter to the presidential candidates on “clean coal.” When I asked for more specifics, they told me they were supporting clean coal technologies (and oxymoron).
I am in a primary state for next Tuesday and I would guess that they are probably doing this across the country.
We need to let people know about this front group for the coal industry and their attempts to covertly influence our candidates for prez.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:27 pmNow I come back and I’m called a “flamerâ€, by which I assume you mean to imply that I’m gay.
Comment by Charles James Napier — February 14, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
Funny… from what I remember about Chucky, I would assume that “flamer” was referring to a self-combusting rectum…
February 14th, 2008 at 9:15 pmCheck McCains love of the coal industry. Google Dineh Navajo, John McCain, Peabody Coal. Very informative regarding the real McCain and his motives.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:37 pmYeah, remember the coal wars? Wicked, those were.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:06 pmThe Molly Maguires?
Harlan County?
Ludlow, Colorado?
February 15th, 2008 at 12:26 amgrotesque.
Children are used to sell Super Soakers and fruity-flavored cereal, not coal.
February 15th, 2008 at 1:53 amThey think that using children will impart an aura of innocence on their product.
Like talcum powder or tear-free shampoo.
clumsy thugs.
February 15th, 2008 at 1:57 amI don’t know any teenager who would admit to being “stoked about the future of energy in this countryâ€.
I wouldn’t criticize the coal industry for being dishonest; they’re just doing what any business or trade group will do. they’re trying to portray themselves or their products in the best possible light.
February 15th, 2008 at 2:59 amHey has any Republicans or Republican Radio people gone to the homes of these kids? Have they Rebublicans investiagated the parent of the Kids?
February 15th, 2008 at 3:54 amYou mention mercury…
First off, over half of the mercury in the atmosphere comes from natural sources. And the government estimates that as much as 70 percent of all of the mercury that is deposited in U.S. waterways come from emission sources outside the United States.
Coal-based power plants in the United States contribute about 1% of total global emissions.
The United States is the only country in the world to regulate utility mercury emissions. About three years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency released new stringent rules to regulate mercury emissions from power plants in the United States. The reduction required is a 70 percent reduction in utility mercury emissions from U.S. power plants, resulting in the need for the industry to invest about $52 billion in new technology.
Human exposure to methyl mercury comes from fish. The methyl mercury in ocean fish comes mostly from natural sources in the deep oceans — there has been methyl mercury in ocean fish since there were fish. Given that our nation’s power plants account for only 1% of global mercury emissions, eliminating them would have no detectable effect on fish.
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October 15th, 2008 at 2:52 am