Big Coal: Inbreeding, Not Mining, to Blame for Birth Defects - New England Patriots Forums

mcgraw_wv · 07-13-2011, 11:00 AM

Big Coal: Inbreeding, Not Mining, to Blame for Birth Defects | Mother Jones

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Last month, when coal execs read the report linking birth defects to mountaintop removal mining, they weren't exactly thrilled. One rebuttal, penned by four attorneys with the firm Crowell & Moring, which represents the National Mining Association, accused the study's authors of using cherry-picked and misleading data. But that apparently wasn't convincing enough, so they went a step further and employed a discredited stereotype about inbreeding in West Virginia.

"The study failed to account for consanquinity [sic], one of the most prominent sources of birth defects," the attorneys' statement said. It then went on to advertise the firm's services to coal companies looking to "counter unfounded claims of injury or disease" from potential lawsuits sparked by the study.

Way to stay classy Big Coal!

PatriotsReign · 07-13-2011, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by mcgraw_wv

Big Coal: Inbreeding, Not Mining, to Blame for Birth Defects | Mother Jones

Way to stay classy Big Coal!

Seems like most energy co's abuse people and the environment. I just wish some genius could make coal and oil obsolete...let us hope someday soon.

I once worked at a coal strip mine in Gillette Wyoming owned by Kerr-McGee ( the co. that killed Karen-Ann Quinlan). I can attest that there is no way to avoid breathing the dust.

Thankfull, I only worked there one summer while in college and I wasn't a "Miner"....I helped build coal silo's that fill the long trains full of coal.

Talk about going back in time....Google Gillette, WY sometime!