Thu
Oct 28 2010
07:15 am
By: R. Neal
This army of hired corporate spokesmen has come before you and whined that adequately protecting the public will cost too much, or cost jobs, or make coal ash seem like a bad thing, we even heard the words stigma on coal ash as a result of all this regulation, and so on. Well if you want to see "stigma" just come out to Roane County and see what it is like trying to put your life, business, and property values back together after you get hit by the mother of all stigmas.
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