WV State Senator Drinks ‘Coal Slurry’ to Shame His Colleagues into Action

Published by Juliana Williams, March 13th, 2009 global warming 4 Comments

West Virgina State Senator Randy White (D-Webster) stood up on the state floor (video in link) yesterday and asked his fellow Senators to join him in drinking the discolored water that average citizens have to drink every day. Not a one joined him.

Although the water he drank was not exactly coal slurry, it wasn’t pristine bottled water either.

White says if people have to drink water with coal slurry in it, lawmakers should have to drink it as well. White says lawmakers are no different.

The public may feel removed from the impacts of global warming, but there is no doubt that clean water hits home. So while the coal industry is touting clean coal to the public, we need to be counter loud and often with clean water. Stop poisoning our water and killing the people of this land.

4 Responses to “WV State Senator Drinks ‘Coal Slurry’ to Shame His Colleagues into Action”

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1 kate Mar 13th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

Reason #4189 why we need to oppose the CCS rhetoric. It doesn’t matter what you do with what comes out of the smokestack, coal is still dirty.
2 Matt Dernoga Mar 14th, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Good post, no one would want to drink that water!

http://madrad2002.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/clean-coal-was-never-being-developed-by-bush-admin/

clean coal is a joke!

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Juliana Williams grew up in Washington state and began organizing at Whitman College in 2004, working to get her campus to purchase renewable energy. She volunteered with the Sierra Student Coalition and help found the Cascade Climate Network. Following that, she lived in Iowa for two years, working as the SSC's Great Plains Organizer with amazing students in MN, IA, MO, NE and SD. After working with the Breakthrough Institute she is now pursuing her Master of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. She is an avid ultimate player, plays string bass and spends way too much time on wikipedia.

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