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It's a line that's been repeated a thousand times on conservative media: liberals are "elitist" for opposing climate deregulation. According to seasoned coal advocates, working class folks in Jesup, Georgia must be liberal "elitists" for opposing a ten ton dump of toxic coal ash in their community. Unsurprisingly, I don't think Republic Services are dumping coal ash anywhere near Rush Limbaugh's NYC penthouse or Sean Hannity's Long Island estate.
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Coal-fired power plants in the U.S. churn out more than 100 million tons of coal ash a year, making it the country’s second largest waste product after household trash. Power companies typically dump coal ash into pits or ponds on their properties, where it can percolate into waterways and groundwater or get carried by wind as carcinogenic “fugitive dust.”
Yet regulators have largely failed to control disposal of this material ― which contains arsenic, lead and mercury ― even though a person living near an unlined coal ash storage pond faces a cancer risk 2,000 times higher than those same regulators have deemed acceptable.
Conservatives solve this dilemma by not responding to this thread.
Now if this had been some northern or west coast city, they'd be a bunch of whining hippies.
But since they're from the Bible Belt, you turn your head and ignore their anger because you know they'll vote for some pro-coal conservative regardless of how bad they're treated. Coal companies could dump the coal ash in their living rooms (literally, not figuratively), and these people would STILL vote for the pro coal candidate.
County residents were getting more and more concerned with each story. This new rail spur would enable the company ― later found to be Republic Services, a $9 billion company based in Phoenix whose biggest shareholder is Microsoft’s Bill Gates ― to haul 10,000 tons of toxic coal ash through the county’s swampy forestlands and into the dump every day.
Seattle liberal elite dumping poison on the little people.
Toxic coal ash is what will make America great again. We have plenty of people here who not only want more of it but completely eliminate all environmental regulation and let the ruling donor class dump as much toxic coal ash in their neighborhood as they want!
I don't think I have the energy to explain how freedom of association and owning the fruits of your labor works tonight.
So just put me down for raising taxes and more regulation. We've come this far so maybe this time it will work!
Lol, you only have prepared talking points as a rebuttal. Toxic coal ash is FREEDOM! Freedom for the billionaire class to steamroll over salt of the earth Americans. Because money equals power. And they have it. And you dont.
Lol, you only have prepared talking points as a rebuttal. Toxic coal ash is FREEDOM! Freedom for the billionaire class to steamroll over salt of the earth Americans. Because money equals power. And they have it. And you dont.
I can't even make sense of what you think I believe.
Gates was the poison dumper. A Seattle coastal elite.
And your boy Obama's EPA knew about the discrepancy in landfill dumping last year but did nothing which was going to make this possible.
Is that specific enough for you? Or am I being too esoteric?
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