Peggy Seeger once penned some mighty lyrics: ... Bone and blood is the price of coal ... ... Thru all their lives they dug their grave ... But what Peggy hadn't figured out at the time was that the true price of coal is far higher than the lives lost mining it. Even the cleanest-burning, most modern coal-fired power plants are a huge environmental disaster that makes nuclear radiation released so far in the world pale in true comparison. Yours truly has often been a big-time anti-nuke … [Read more...]
