RFK, Jr.: Coal's Toxic Sludge

[GoLeft TV]

Run time: 10:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4KhOIwHgFY   Posted on YouTube: August 26, 2010 By YouTube Member: golefttv Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 26, 2010 By DU Member: GoLeft TV Views on DU: 305

 
For the last 30 years, the coal industry has been working closely with government regulatory agencies to keep the dangers of their toxic waste hidden from the American public. During the Bush administration, the industry became so entwined with the EPA that it was almost impossible to distinguish the two, and the industry was given everything it could ever want. The question we now have to answer is whether or not the Obama administration is going to stand up to Big Coal, or will they continue to tow the line. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discusses how the coal industry managed to completely capture the government with Jeff Goodell, a contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine, and author of the new book “How to Cool the Planet: Geo Engineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate.”