Astroturf alert of the day

Check this out: the coal industry actually has to reassure people that what they have heard on TV is true. C'mon, guys, these are Americans we're talking about here. What do you have to hide that you can't hide just by lying to our faces?

LearnAboutCoal.org: Nice Ads...But are they True?

When one of the adorable young scamps in those TV commercials directed me to LearnAboutCoal.org, I was not at all surprised to learn the site is a project of Americans for Balanced Energy Choices. The organization is aptly named, if by "Americans" you mean "people who own and run coal companies, and their friends;" and by "Balanced" you mean "balanced in favor of coal company profits."

Nice ads...but are they true?

I mean, really true, not true in the "I have sent you Clear Skies legislation that mandates a 70-percent cut in air pollution" type way.