It's Official: GOP Platform Proclaims Coal "Clean Energy"; Internet Porn Is "Public Health Crisis"
For the Republican Party, internet porn is a “public health crisis.” Coal, however, is perfectly “clean.” That’s at least according to the party’s official draft platform, which is being crafted ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. On Monday, the GOP’s platform committee unanimously voted to declare coal “an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource.”
Environmentalists reacted swiftly to the decision, essentially calling Republicans delusional.
“In the absurd, alternative reality in which this Republican platform is being drafted, unicorns exist, the moon is made of cheese, and coal is somehow clean,” Sierra Club’s Global Climate Policy Director John Coequyt said in a statement to ThinkProgress. “Reading it and taking it seriously is the same thing as reading a Harry Potter book, grabbing a broom, and heading to your roof — both entail losing touch with basic science and common sense, and will result in avoidable catastrophe.”
The word “clean” was not initially included in the Republican platform committee’s coal statement. It was added by David Barton, an RNC delegate from Texas. Barton is the former vice chair of the Republican Party of Texas and an evangelical leader, popular for his claims that the U.S. Constitution is a biblical document. According to Grist’s Rebecca Leber, the RNC’s language on coal “just happens to reflect the same talking points favored by the lobby group, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), which on its website calls coal ‘an affordable, abundant and increasingly clean domestic energy resource that is vital to providing reliable low-cost electricity.'” The RNC’s language on coal mimicked that language, “give or take a few words,” Leber reported.
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/12/3797378/gop-clean-coal/
