Why isn't WV for Life opposed to MTR?

by: Carnacki

Sun Jun 26, 2011 at 21:39:57 PM EDT

So how would you feel if the very place where you live - the air you breathe and the water your drink - means that your baby is at greater risk, even if you take perfect care of yourself? The list of birth defects that threaten babies in the Appalachian coalfields, according to this new study, is gruesome, including circulatory/respiratory, central nervous system, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, and urogenital problems.

My daughter is an 11th generation West Virginian, and we are turning her heritage into a toxic waste dump, unfit for the next generation of West Virginia's children.

Given this groundbreaking new study, I find it particularly enraging that the US House of Representatives is currently trying to pass a bill (HR 2018) that would actually gut the Clean Water Act in order to make it easier for coal companies to continue blowing up Appalachia's mountains and spewing pollution into the air and water of nearby towns and homes. The bill is sponsored by Reps. Nick Rahall of West Virginia and John Mica of Florida. It is a polluter wish list, with ramifications that extend far beyond Appalachian coal country.

I'm sure poisoning them in the womb is "for the sake of the kids."