Who Needs Scenery?
It’s gonna be awful pretty to look up at the Great Smokey Mountains one day and see treeless humps.
Tennessee turned their backs on Gore in 2000 and voted for shit-head instead. I wonder how they’ll feel once their main source of tourism-dollars is gone?
Opposition mounts to clean air change affecting parks
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Critics fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule in the waning days of the Bush administration that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants near national parks.
The proposed change, pending since last June, comes as the utility industry moves into its biggest building boom in coal-fueled power plants in decades. To meet growing electricity needs, more than 20 plants are under construction in 14 states and more than 100 are in various stages of planning.
