I hope the company trying to build the coal power plant in Washington County near here can hang in there and "git 'er done." They're fighting an uphill battle with the Obama administration.

“carbon dioxide pollution”? No such thing; just another distortion of language for partisan purposes, not science.

LL, the exact argument you make for CO2 can be made for sulfur and chlorine: both found naturally in our atmosphere, both essential for life on earth. It doesn't follow from these characteristics that it is therefore healthy, prudent, or wise to release unregulated amounts of these molecules into the atmosphere.

burninater: “Thanks for the press release,bj.”

What press release?

Oops, nevermind bj, that was jtf. Jtf, thanks for posting the press release!

So clean air is a Communist plot? What do you expect your grandchildren to breathe?

Deny it all you want, but the simple fact is that we have to quit burning coal. I'd much rather have a nuclear plant in my back yard than another coal fired plant.

Take a tour of Plant Urquhart down on the east end of Beech Island, see if that'll change YOUR opinion.

swcohen said "So clean air is a Communist plot? What do you expect your grandchildren to breathe?"

I'd consider it more a liberal hoax than a Communist plot, although I could easily be persuaded your way.

I expect my grandchildren to breathe clean air. It's getting cleaner all the time. Have you heard about all the new technology associated with coal?

Then swcohen said "Deny it all you want, but the simple fact is that we have to quit burning coal."

That's not a fact at all. It's a misguided opinion. How can you confuse it with a "fact?"

Then swcohen said "I'd much rather have a nuclear plant in my back yard than another coal fired plant."

That's another opinion. I'd probably agree.