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In "Yes we can burn coal," I reported that the American Clean Energy Policy and Security Act of 2009 reaffirms Barack Obama and the Democratic-led Congress's commitment to the coal industry. And, to the energy policy that George Bush outlined, in June 2007, at the reopening of Reactor #1, at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant.
The coal industry had already made Obama the star of its $20 million advertising campaign as the American Clean Energy Policy Act of 2009 was being drafted:
And, on April 21, 2009, Robert F Kennedy, Jr., labeled Obama "an indentured servant to the coal industry.
Friends, including environmental writers and activists, joined me in celebrating such a prominent Democrat and environmentalist's vehement objecion to the hypocrisy of our pro-coal president's claims of climate concern.
But, when I posted RFK, Jr.'s statement to various online discussion forums, Jeremiah Lowery, a young African American community activist in D.C., who bears the name of lifelong civil rights activist Reverend Jeremiah Lowery, responded:
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Jeremiah A. Lowery.
"I agree with what R.F.K., Jr. said, and there's no such thing as clean coal, but he should have used different words to get his point across. It's offensive to use any wording that invokes the memory of African American slavery when you are criticizing an African American politician."
I agree.
And, I hope that the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 doesn't pass in any form whatsoever, because, in the coal-rich U.S., there's coal money smeared all over the equation of "clean energy" and "security."
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