At least "Der Heilige Obama" will now review all mountaintop removal permits, which is a setback for the US coal industry.
As sympathetic as I might be to the needs of industry, moutaintop removal is ghoulishness worthy of Sauron himself.
...the tar sands are a fairly close approximation to Mordor, as well.... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
My point was only that the Sauronish externalities (social costs) are not included in the cost of a coal plant. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
