If that plant goes online, and smog doubles in Atlanta per your article’s statements, all the votes and environmental issues tallied in this article will be rendered worthless.

I recently saw a power plant in London that burns sewage for power, thus removing toxic human waste from the environment, while producing electricity for the community. Other countries burn garbage to drive their electricity plants, rather than landfilling their waste.

Both of these “waste” fuels are virtually free, meaning using waste as fuel decreases the cost of electricity to the consumer, as well as reducing the amount of waste going into the environment.

When Atlanta shows such genius in addressing the twin issues of energy and pollution, maybe then we will deserve a decent “grade” on environmental issues. It’s time the citizenry demanded such “multi-tasking” approaches to solving our problems.

Until then, you can all believe in the “Clean Coal” advertising campaign plastered all over your televisions.

I, for one, don’t live in an Orwellian DoubleSpeak world, so I ain’t buyin’ it. Coal is filthy fuel. Always has been, always will be.