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  ahem... getting on my OWN soapbox

  one of the things that enviro's like to do most is point the finger at everyone and say how irresponsible they are.

  i will admit it gets old, because no one is perfect, and the list of problems is so long that there's always something more we all can be doing to protect the planet.

  this being said, allow me to indulge... grist, what were you thinking to allow GE banner ads about clean coal???  people go to an environemntal website and think clean coal is green and is a part of the solution.

  this is absolute nonsense.

  i understand we all need funding, but have you no standards?  where is line at which our words and actions contradict enough to make us hypocritical?

  coal can NEVER be clean.  if you consider how we get it (BLOWING UP MOUNTAINS), how we ship it, how we spend energy to convert it, and how it needs to be transmitted over power lines, about 3% of the energy put into the process is used for electricity for consumers. and no, i didn't make up that statistic.

  shame on the coal industry for even thinking they could call themselves clean. shame on GE for supporting such lies.  it makes me sick to think of the destruction coal has done to Appalchia-- a place where clean water comes only in bottles, where peoples' lives matter much less than the pieces of black rock under the mountains upon which they live-- and how unapologetic the industry continues to be.  And now, even places like Grist provide a venue for this industry to continue to hoodwink the world into thinking that coal can be clean.  

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