To clarify what I meant about elections, I'd say that neither Republicans nor Democrats at the national level have the courage or the clout to deal effectively with environmental damage. The worst culprit is coal. The Koch brothers mine and sell it, and Warren Buffet hauls it away on his rail cars. West Virginia is the future for the rest of coal- mining country. What we can clearly see anywhere we choose to look is that somebody is perfectly willing to do anything to make big bucks. Big bucks speak more loudly than we do. Jimmy Carter was ridiculed for asking the country to face up to it's energy appetite. No one since has had the gumption to face the facts.

Bill Ferguson