Now that that's off my chest

Even if you don't burn it, coal is still dirty.

Or, maybe I could revise my screaming to this: the only clean coal is unmined coal!

My car, completely covered--to the point of opacity--in coal dust is just one simple example of even unburned coal not being clean.

The houses up Big Branch, between here and Hazard, that are covered in coal and road dust are more examples of coal being dirty, EVEN BEFORE IT'S BURNED.

The people around here contaminated with heavy metals, the babies being bathed in copper contaminated water--all from wells destroyed by MTR blasting--is further evidence of dirty coal.

The silt that's flooding out of these "valley fills" into creeks, into rivers, into the Ohio, then the Mississippi, silting up the delta, further destroying the wetland barriers that prevent catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans...all courtesy of "clean" coal.

Yes, Coal Association, I too heart coal. I <3 coal...when it's in the ground!