Daily Scandal: Free Big Coal Window Ads in Inhofe and Senate Enviro Committee Office? (Photos)
By- Jeff Biggers- Author, “Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland”-March 10, 2010
Daily Scandal: Free Big Coal Window Ads in Inhofe and Senate Enviro Committee Office? (Photos)
While the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is charged with protecting “the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the products we consume have a direct impact on the health of our families,” some of its staffers apparently feel it should also serve as a front for the devastating pollution of Big Coal.
As hundreds of citizens from ravaged coalfield areas in Appalachia and around the nation fill the corridors of Congress this week, calling on the House and Senate to pass the Clean Water Protection Act/Appalachian Restoration Act to stop the illegal dumping of toxic coal waste into our American waterways, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and his staff on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are reportedly providing free window space for Big Coal ads in our taxpayer financed federal buildings.
Check out this photo of the Senate minority leader’s office window at the E/PW Committee, sent by concerned coalfield residents from West Virginia, who have repeatedly asked the staffers to take down the offensive T-shirt on government property: See photos.