Coal plant fights familiar to nuclear power protesters.
The plant-by-plant strategy is part of a campaign by environmentalists to force the federal government to deal with climate change. The fights are scattered from Georgia to Wyoming, from Illinois to Texas, but the ultimate target is Washington, where the Bush administration has resisted placing limits on carbon dioxide and Congress has yet to act on a global warming bill.
George Bush’s presidency is the culmination of a lifelong history of
sadistic practices that he must deny in order to maintain his fragile
psychological equilibrium.