Steve Benson for February 19, 2017

Steverino: If you don’t like it, you only have yourself to blame.

Wait, what? This corrupt, rapacious admin is the fault of people who mostly fought against it? I know Benson was sometimes critical of Hillary, but I’m pretty sure that he didn’t swing the election.

Judge ordered Pruitt to release suspicious emails by Tuesday 2/21, so the vote should not have been forced last Friday.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/319938-trump-signs-bill-undoing-obama-coal-mining-rule

http://khn.org/news/aca-repeal-threatens-a-black-lung-provision-popular-in-coal-country/

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/professor-hendryx-vs-big-coal/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/utilities-vote-to-close-largest-coal-plant-in-western-us/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/business/energy-environment/a-bleak-outlook-for-trumps-promises-to-coal-miners.html

http://www.gallup.com/poll/182180/support-nuclear-energy.aspx

The rich say that, since God, in his wisdom, gave them all the money, they are meant to be in charge of everything. I am trying to remember which plutocrat said that in the early part of last century.

Now that the coal companies can dump their solid waste into the drinking water, the coal jobs will all be back, right?

Maybe we can all have a great Fuehrer Trump rally when the Monongahela river catches fire again…..

Lord, this whole mess scares the Heck out of me. After all we all have accomplished, only to have it all fall apart.

Toon understates the danger this nut, and other Trumpites represent. Jim Watt and the Reagan bunch were not as bad, and Watt insisted we had to use up all resources cause Jesus was coming back in his lifetime which might give some pause thinking of our little VP as well!

Bad as Pruitt is, he at least has a background that involves the environment, unlike Ben Carson (neurosurgeon at Housing and Urban Development) or Betsy DeVos (who never set foot in a public school before being nominated for Secretary of Education).

Oh goody, we can have air as polluted as China

Finally money has a say in politics. I’m sure this is what the blue-collar rural voters wanted, more pollution and less stability.