Thread: Republican platform declares coal is clean

The dirty energy industries do no want regulations. Pa legislature just turned down sensible and much needed regs that the voters wanted. There is no excuse for allowing greedy, reckless corporations and stock holders $$$$ whilst sickening & killing people, children included.

Only 5% of our energy is renewable even though there would be PLENTY of JOBS & no illnesses.

NO excuse for that either.

GOP will have a hard time winning as the environmentalists will not vote for a platform run on expanding dirty energy. It is the 21st century and they want to progress into modern technologies - at least subsidize expand clean ones. Dirty energy makers receive taxpayer subsidies, pay no taxes and are some of the highest profit makers of any industry. They do not care at all @ people & that is WRONG.

Pipelines break, fire bomb trains ignite, fracking cement casings will all fail eventually & the cancer causing chems will infiltrate our aquifers. Try & sue these industries, they drag it on for decades. Exxon Valdez spill still has oil @ Alaska and fought a legal battle for 20yrs so as NOT TO PAY or AS LITTLE AS THEY CAN,

The Gulf states have 1200 fracking wells in the water (used to like the fish from that area till the blow out of oil for a month) Now you can add all the toxic wastewater from fracking wells to the mix. That is 80,000 lbs of cancer causing chemicals PER WELL.

California is using fracking's toxic wastewater for crops, have a little cancer causing XYLENE with your salad. They also dump it in the ocean at offshore wells. Now they want to well up the east coast. This is wrong! These industries need regulations and need to be kept to a minimum production - move over or join the clean energy movement - don't keep us back for your greed. If the "race for the cure" advocates started with some of the causes and tackled them, there wouldn't be a need for those races.

No man may poison the people for his private profit.
—Theodore Roosevelt

"The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet."
President John F. Kennedy

“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. ”― Edward Abbey