distilled to its thesis, this post uses a half-truth (coal with less sulfur is CLEAN!!!) in order to bash organized labor and environmentalism. there's really little else of substance to be found in it.

next time, show some backbone, and don't get so butthurt when the token conservative picks a fight with you that you feel the need to find a scapegoat farther to the left.

Support the "clean" coal movement by shutting down all coal mining operations.

No doubt.

sorry to be so crude, but low sulfur coal is not clean. it just has less sulfur in it. it still has lead, mercury and arsenic in it. as well as the main ingredient, carbon.

and you still have to mine it, which is an incredibly destructive process that is dangerous and bad for the environment.

additionally, one of my main points was that clean coal, which is being sold as having something to do with global warming is actually only related to acid rain, and it manages to be dirty as hell even with that. obviously low sulfur coal also has nothing to do with global warming

but lets just go burn western coal and accelerate climate change. great idea. lets devastate more areas of the country so that we can have more coal!

speaking of western coal... have you heard of the black mesa coal mine in arizona? its fucking terrible, they use up somewhere around half of the local regions water and remove indigenous people in arizona from their land. but yay! low sulfur coal! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa,_Arizona

also, as to my "reflexive liberalism," i hate liberals. i think its the one thing i agree with mytheos on. i am far from liberal.

also i think robert bird is a dick. but thats not the point.

so in conclusion you missed the point, and this article is ridiculous.