Reputedly Legendary Coal Lobbyist/Asshole Luke Popovich Retiring From NMA; Leaves Legacy Of Bullshit
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All-or-nothing environmentalism has lost working-class voters for Democrats, he argued, none more than President Obama. "You'd be hard pressed to find a president whose actions have been more warlike on coal. There are those who say the president has parked his tanks on our front lawn, and it's hard to dispute that," Popovich told The Washington Post in 2010.
Advocacy group Appalachian Voices called that line "astoundingly irresponsible." "The NMA's beltway spokesperson, responsible to ZERO citizens, who lives in Washington DC, indulges in right-wing militaristic fantasy talk about Obama's personal aggressiveness towards him in vivid 3D detail," activist J.W. Randolph wrote then. "In that culture of unaccountability, no wonder then that the NMA encourages mountaintop removal and also fights worker safety regulations at every turn."
Criticism has never stifled Popovich, whose Twitter byline professes a love of literary fiction and Paris. On NMA's Count on Coal blog, which he wrote, Popovich referred to the "The Iliad" as "A (Clean Power Plan) Parable for Our Time" and compared a Department of Energy grid resilience study to the wisdom of the Oracle at Delphi in Greek mythology.
"It was the 17th century English playwright William Congreve who claimed 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,'" Popovich wrote about a proposed coal and nuclear subsidy last year. "Congreve never met the renewable fuels industry." His critics say he's part of the problem, but Popovich bemoans an increasingly "divisive" public discourse, saving plenty of venom for the press.
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