‘…It’s because coal is bad for our health.’

Senator Mitch McConnell made the first public debate with Secretary of State Allison Lundagan Grimes who sent reasons why coal is no longer the king of the country. That is because it affects our health. Wow. Of course, McConaughey actually stated his colleague, Senate major leader Harry Reid, why he will not adopt the new policy to expand US coal as follows. "We talk about cost competitiveness, the cost that you have to spend is not the final result, that is, coal makes us sick." Yes, actually how many from Washington, DC That truth came out.

Interestingly, McConnell pointed out this point as if health is what we really care about in Kentucky. His behavior seems to have no reason to think seriously about the energy source that can produce the highest level health effects in the world.

Ironically, when our condition has the most expensive and worst health ranking in the country, senators are watching health as a bad excuse for influencing policy. It is often 1st in basketball, but it is ranked 1st in cancer, 2nd in lung disease and 8th in cardiovascular death. Poor quality air due to increased coal emissions is an important factor in many of these cases.

The occurrence of Ebola in West Africa is scary. This disease is killed quickly and indiscriminately, and brings the community into a state of confusion. The idea that this disease crosses our borders and spreads in our own lives has changed the way we care about health.

In reality, the number of deaths from power plants next year will exceed the number of deaths due to Ebola in the United States. The Clean Air Task Force estimates that 259 people died each year from the discharge from a coal-fired power station in Kentucky. This is a silent killer, but the risk is even bigger

The last week's debate between McConnell and Grimes seldom revealed that the candidate ranks Kentucky in the second worst position among our country's worst health conditions. Almost prepared for planning to improve health literacy or to cope with rapidly changing health threats

But when McConnell cited the reason why the leaders of our country are about to leave the coal, the people of Kentucky may have got it.

Coal was once the king of the United States, and even occupied more than 40% of our electricity. However, coal is the most contaminated of all fossil fuels, which is bad news for our health and the environment. The good news is that people all over the world are transitioning from dirty, contaminated coal to clean, renewable and affordable energy. Fractures are a false solution to the latest energy problems in the fossil fuel industry. It is more expensive than clean renewable energy, and it is more contaminated and more dangerous. Hydropower is increasing greenhouse gas pollution and environmental degradation while transferring capital and attention to the real long-term solution needed for our sustainable energy system

First of all, the phrase "clean energy" has no meaning in the title of the suggestion of playing cards. The process of coal mining, transportation, combustion of coal itself is very dirty. It increases air pollution, harms our health, causes climate change, and degrades our land. There is never "clean coal" - and never do it - it is one thing. The government's proposal to replace a clean electric plan can not save $ 1 billion, "you, me, everyone" - unless "you, me, everyone" is a coal manager. These power plants are not economically viable as natural gas, renewable energy prices such as wind and sunlight are declining rapidly. According to a recent report by environmental entrepreneurs, choosing coal rather than clean energy will prevent Americans from creating 560,000 new jobs and increasing the economy by $ 52 billion.

A coal-fired power plant occupies more than half of the power generation in the United States. According to the attack on human health of coal, a non-profit socially responsible physician (PSR) said that coal combustion is known to be harmful to mercury, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and human health Other Of the substance is released. The report assesses the impact of coal pollution on our respiratory, cardiovascular and nervous systems and concludes that air pollutants from coal combustion can cause asthma, lung cancer, congestive heart failure and stroke I am attaching.