Wyoming is a beautiful state.\u00a0 Or, it used to be.\u00a0 Republican energy policies have turned parts of it into scenes like this.\u00a0 Now Democrats are doing the same thing.\u00a0 Is there anyone left in American who will stand up to the fossil fuel industries that seem determined to destroy the very land of this country? The article quoted below blames everything on Ken Salazar, but these are Obama’s energy and environmental policies.\u00a0 The headlines read, “Salazar opens up 750 million tons of coal to mining leases in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin” . . . . “The four coal leases next to existing strip mines in the Powder River Basin \u2014 the largest coal-producing region in the United States \u2014 total 758 million tons and will take between 10 and 20 years to mine.”\u00a0 These are the policies of the Obama administration, not Ken Salazar, who is not the President. (Do people really think Ken Salazar has the power to do something like this without Obama’s direction and approval?) Burning all this coal, after the land is destroyed obtaining it, will doom us to a certain future of ever-increasing higher temperatures associated with climate change. This is the same as dooming [...]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wyoming is a beautiful state.\u00a0 Or, it used to be.\u00a0 Republican energy policies have turned parts of it into scenes like this.\u00a0 Now Democrats are doing the same thing.\u00a0 Is there anyone left in American who will stand up to … Continue reading