but they really should be paid by the mine corporations rather than the taxpayers.

this is the greatest fraud at the heart of the national debt : shifting assets to the rich and their corporations, while shifting liabilities to the taxpayers.

1995.


Except when lawsuits get judgements, the taxpayers pay for all the cleanup

but this stuff is bipartisan and our side, at least, has got to start fighting.

we (new orleans) just cleaned up radioactive waste that had been in a neighborhood for so long no one knew how it got there. not only the clean up, but the lawsuits are on the taxpayers. the profits are long gone.

https://www.fox8live.com/2019/06/28/bins-radioactive-waste-removed-gert-town/

we should not be fooled that money = power and doesn't matter who the politicians are. They are all actors in the big con game.

the environment is my biggest issue. as important as climate change is, we still need to protect the environment from other hazards.

it was wrong for Obama to give a pass to BP on their big spill. offshore drilling should have stopped until the companies demonstrated that they knew how to prevent these disasters or to at least clean them up when they happen.

that guarantees pensions for all occupations? Why are coal workers privileged over airline pilots?

by more than 50% under the PBGC rules. Its is what it is. Coal miners should not got special treatment. Look at what happen with city of Detroit retirees, look at what happened to teamsters in "multi-state" pension fiasco.