I don't work in Pennsylvania anymore, so I can be the one to say it: McGinty sure did have a lot to do with pushing the Alternative Energy Portfolio bill through and it took some pushing--since most of the environmentalists in the state were trying to stop it. Why? Because too many dirty technologies were allowed in as "alternative", which was the word they used when they decided to de-emphasize RENEWABLE energy in favor of technologies that would better please the coal industry. A primary beneficiary was coal waste power plants, which burn the "gob," or waste coal left over from years when there were less effective methods of screening coal. Communities are told that these plants will get rid of the huge mountains of dirty gob they've looked at for decades, which leach acids into streams and sometimes catch fire. They are not told that two-thirds of the volume of the gob that goes into these plants come right back as waste ash, since the stuff is poor in BTU's and since they add a lot of lime. They're told that the plants are marvellous new technology that will hardly pollute the air compared to the myriad filthy old plants in the area--and are not told that ANY new plant, by law, must be much cleaner, and that nobody is proposing closing any dirty old plants, only adding new, less-dirty ones. McGinty spends a lot of time dancing around waving green ribbons and singing gay songs. I'm disappointed that Grist is also giving her a platform.  I hope we can prevent the spread of her kind of dishonest "environmentalism" into West Virginia.