“Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesFiveFeetWestAtmosphereIslandsPoisonTallPollutionNeedlesVirginiaContributingOhioCarolinaPennsylvaniaNorth CarolinaIllinoisOver 50West VirginiaEpaRhode Island Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.” HardStatesSchoolLawCan DoCommunityAirCarHard WorkIslandsBusEnginesPollutionOur CommunityDieselAir PollutionRhode IslandSchool BusPollution Control Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters. And I think that home-state constituency issue is a pretty constant one. And I think the problem of extreme lobbying by the corporate sector, which runs about $30-to-$1 compared to everybody else in the world, and the constituent aspect combines to give those industries a consistent advantage.” ThinkingWorldNeedsGivingYearsCountryMatterStatesProblemHomeRunningIssuesIndustryAdvantageAspectConstantWestClimateExtremesDespiteCorporateConsistentCoalSympatheticVirginiaOhioConstituentsHawksPennsylvaniaKentuckyLobbyingWest VirginiaWyomingHome State Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
