In a single year, a rate of fewer than one in 100,000 Americans contract a rare form of blood cancer.
In Pennsylvania coal country, the rate is nearly five times higher. Many suspect "clean" coal is the cause.
The Wonk Room at Think Progress has a detailed post up about the latest activities by the coal industry's main front group, the "American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity" (ACCCE).
Today's story is told by ACCCE's vice president for communications, Joe Lucas, in a spin festival er, opinion column in the Fort Wayne, Indiana Journal-Gazette.
Don Blankenship’s empire is crumbling, rapidly. Mountaintop removal coal mining may well be on it’s way out. The money’s drying up. Appalachia is rising in Washington D.C. And we’re seeing some VERY interesting developments on Wall Street and in Washington.
