It has been obvious for some time that Republicans suffer from (or enjoy) factophobia. They fear the facts.
They hate science and distort, deny, or subvert it at every opportunity. They claim there is no global warming (or if there is, it’s caused by chipmunks, or something). Remember when Ronald Reagan asserted that “trees cause more [...]
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It’s Official: Republicans Fear Facts
Earth Day Origins and Impact Video
Want to know more about the importance of Earth Day? How it got started? What it has accomplished so far? Take a look at the following Earth Day video and find out.
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Earth Day 2009 Matters. Here’s Why.
Earth Day began in 1970 when 20 million people across America peacefully demonstrated to save the environment by ending pollution and the wanton destruction of species and ecosystems. Legislators got the message.
Several pieces of landmark legislation to clean up toxic waste, alleviate air pollution, and clean up rivers and streams directly resulted from that Earth Day [...]
Cleaning up the Clean Water Act
Congress is “this close” to passing a bill to restore the Clean Water Act to its pristine glory, cleaning up the mess made by the Bush administration. You see, to please the coal industry, the Bushites passed a rule that it was OK to blast the tops of mountains and dump the resulting millions of tons of coal waste into streams—-even to cover up and block streams entirely.
The result was literally coal black tap water for many residents of Appalachia. And even when it was not black, some of that water was toxic. Oh, and incidentally the destruction of over 1200 miles of streams in (formerly beautiful) Appalachia.
The rule-change was made so that it would be cheaper for coal companies to blow the tops off ancient, forested mountains in Appalachia (hundreds of mountains so far!) and bulldoze the leftover, dirt, stones, trees, and toxic waste into the valleys and streams below.
The problem with that is that it polluted the drinking water (coal black tapwater!) for millions of people downstream.
