“Don’t give me the garbage that coal is killing people”

Three cheers for Montana coal guy Bob Gilbert who testified at a hearing before the Montana legislature against the Montana Climate Action Act, which would tack a $10 tax onto each ton carbon dioxide emitted from coal-fired plants. Sounds like Gilbert read Steve Milloy’s 2016 Amazon.com best-selling book “Scare Pollution: Why and How to fix the EPA,” which busted open the myth that emissions from coal plants killed people and set the agenda for reforming EPA under the Trump administration.

Source: Sidney Herald Web | Lawmakers grapple over future of Montana’s coal industry | Local News Stories | sidneyherald.comPDF