Monday, March 2, 2009

****The Carbon Addicts on Capitol Hill

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/28/AR2009022801667.html

Washington has seen its share of big protests over the years, and most of them center on the White House, the Mall or the Capitol. That will change tomorrow, when the first big protest of the Obama era -- and the first mass civil disobedience against global warming in this country -- will take place against the not-very-scenic backdrop of the Capitol Hill Power Plant, a dirty symbol of the dirtiest business on Earth, the combustion of coal.In that one plant -- owned and operated by our senators and representatives -- you can see all the filth that comes with coal.