Coal Kills, So Let’s Welcome It Back

Those who eagerly await the Apocalypse will like this: the latest roll-back of environmental regulations concerning the consumption of coal.  Andrew Wheeler (seated), administrator of the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is shown here repealing the federal law (The Clean Power Plan – CPP) that kept all those heavy metals: mercury, cadmium, selenium, arsenic, etc., all those carcinogenic radioactive isotopes, not to mention greenhouse gas emissions, out of the air we breathe. 

Wheeler has spent most of his career expanding the burning of coal, so this is a red-letter day for him personally.  But his boss is celebrating too, as the CPP came from that cursed Obama administration.

The only people not celebrating are those concerned about their health and safety, as well as that of their loved ones. In China alone, around 670,000 people die prematurely per year as a result of coal-related air pollution. The ‘Coal Kills’ report estimates that in India, coal contributes to between 80,000 to 115,000 premature deaths annually. In the United States coal kills around 13,000 people annually, and 23,300 in Europe.

This is simply mass murder, perpetrated with a ballpoint pen, rather than military weaponry.