Clean Coal Hoax Ignored By Congress
The creative work of the people at the Reality Campaign is exposing the fraud of so-called “clean coal” to the American people, but the politicians in Congress seem not to have gotten the message yet.
According to the Congressional Record, the issue of clean coal propaganda has only been discussed a handful of times on the floor of the House or Senate so far this year – and many times that the issue has come up, members of Congress who receive donations from people and organizations linked with the dirty coal industry have merely repeated the industry’s talking points.
This month, only two members of Congress have bothered to mention the issue of clean coal. One member of the House of Representatives praised the idea of clean coal, and another tried to claim that the big government giveaways to the coal industry in the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 are progress, because they’re slightly less than the big government giveaways to coal that took place with George W. Bush as President.
Citizens, it’s plain that Congress still needs to ehar the message more clearly from us: Coal is not, and never can be, a clean source of energy. America must do better than to rely on this dirty, dangerous fossil fuel.
