Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Mining Industry
Question: What key change has the Trump administration’s EPA made in regulating the toxic waste coming from mining operations? What is the impact on the health and safety of the people living in Montana, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, and other states?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Relevance: U.S. mining sites are dumping 50 million gallons of poisoned wastewater on a daily basis (according to the Associated Press), it may be valuable to know that this waste is filled with arsenic, lead and other toxins, that are flowing from mining sites in to U.S. streams and ponds without being treated, are poisoning both aquatic life and tap water resources.
Craig,
While it’s important mining sites be as environmental as possible, it’s also important not to indulge in simplistic, emotive alarmist propaganda with a hidden political or ideological agenda.
The ambulance that takes you to hospital and saves your life, runs on fuel produced by the oil industry !
In fact, the ambulance/firetender/ emergency service vehicle is made of steel produced with coal, chock full of plastics and ceramics (oil), a road surfaced with bitumen (oil and coal), cement for bridges overpasses, exit ramps, event the hospital building(coal)medicines from oil, and more than 1,500,000 other products from the fossil fuel industry.
All our modern infrastructure, all the vast improvements in health and longevity is the result of oil, coal and mining.
Shouldn’t they also be part of your equation?
One of the biggest improvements in urban environments, saving the lives of millions of children each year has been the advent of the motor car which eliminated millions of cases of child horse encephalitis.
Naturally, no one is encouraging rampant pollution, but these endless little twee sermons, desperately trying to scapegoat “villains” to sure up losing political ideologies, is tedious.