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NewJeffCT

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16. If he gets rid of regulations on coal
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 03:15 PM
Feb 2017

it will help increase the profits of the owners of the coal mines and allow them to contribute more money to the GOP.

Of course, that's short-term. The workers will soon get sicker and the locals will have their water increasingly poisoned and the industry's death spiral will accelerate... and, none of the workers will have health insurance and the remaining healthy ones will not have been trained in any new industries.

Scott Pruit has been approved by Senate [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2017 OP
This is so sickening. narnian60 Feb 2017 #1
GOP wanted to RAM him in there before those emails are seen next Tuesday CousinIT Feb 2017 #2
Yep. dalton99a Feb 2017 #3
He still won't be able to save the coal industry... VMA131Marine Feb 2017 #4
Exactly n2doc Feb 2017 #10
Right modrepub Feb 2017 #12
You are correct. VMA131Marine Feb 2017 #14
If he gets rid of regulations on coal NewJeffCT Feb 2017 #16
Coal is in the same position as the whaling industry a century ago. VMA131Marine Feb 2017 #17
Crap jeffreyi Feb 2017 #5
C'mon, surely we are no better off if NONE of this is happening and if we STILL Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #6
I just donated $100 to the Sierra Club BannonsLiver Feb 2017 #7
pardon me for a moment here logosoco Feb 2017 #8
The whole idea is to get rid of all government agencies katmondoo Feb 2017 #9
We are all edhopper Feb 2017 #11
So this shows the numbers jimlup Feb 2017 #13
Disgusting. BeckyDem Feb 2017 #15
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