Mount St. Helens the state's No. 1 air polluter

Seattle Times ^ | Dec 1, 2004 | Sandi Doughton

[microgood]

Natural things by definition cannot pollute. The Hydrogen Sulfide gas coming out of Mt. St. Helen's is the Natural Kind, and different from the evil kind coming out of coal fired plants made by humans.

[narby]

Reagan was right. Go here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1233890/posts

The last paragraph >>> Noting President Ronald Reagan's notorious 1980 reference to trees causing pollution (Reagan said: "Approximately 80 percent of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation."), the authors conclude: "The results reported here call for a wider recognition that an understanding of recent, current and anticipated changes in biogenic VOC emissions is necessary to guide future air-quality policy decisions; they do not provide any evidence that responsibility for air pollution can or should be shifted from humans to....

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Jimmy Carter wanted to fly planes over Mt. St. Helens and dump American dollars on it to put out the eruption.

He wanted to have this great deed named "The Magma Carter".

[skinkinthegrass]

??? ...More liberal B.S., How can nature pollute? ...its' nature, according Eviro-terrorists, only mankind pollutes.

[ExSafecracker]

This whole article bothers me on a few levels, this kind of
smells like a left wing enviro-wacko kind of press release.
First he goes out of his way to smack down Ronald Reagans
statement about trees, which as I remember had some basis in
truth.
Another thing that bothers me is the statement about the
coal fired power plant(Centralia). I don't live there, so I
do not know about that plant. The article states that the
plant puts out 28000 TONS of pollution a DAY. Even if those
evil plant operators have figured out a way to send 100% of
their fuel up into the air, does that plant really use
56 MILLION pounds of coal a day? Is none of it converted to
heat or ash?
As far as competing with volcanos for pollution bragging
rights, I seem to remenber that Mt. Pinatubo managed to smuck up the air around the world in about a month and a half. Something I don't think mankind could do even if we
tried.

[marblehead17]

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[calex59]

We need to use this to our advantage. I think we should start a movement that perhaps 2 or 3 million environmentalists chain themselves to trees on the slopes of Mt. St. Helens until it stops the poluting activity that is destroying our quality of life in this country. What do you think?

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[NautiNurse]

Mount St. Helens the state's No. 1 air polluter

Lock her up and throw away the key.

[Puddleglum]

If Nature does it, is it pollution..?

[Conspiracy Guy]

[Conspiracy Guy]

You may be on to something there.

[mewzilla]

Maybe massive doeses of Beano?

[ORECON]

As far as competing with volcanos for pollution bragging rights, I seem to remenber that Mt. Pinatubo managed to smuck up the air around the world in about a month and a half. Something I don't think mankind could do even if we tried.

I say we try! On Tuesday, let’s all eat a couple of bowls of beans at 2400 GMT and see what happens.

[MWS]

This is intolerable.

The government ought to crack down on such blatant polluters as Mount St. Helens.

When will we ever learn?

[MWS]

In fact, I think we should beat the lefties to the punch and protest this atrocity ourselves.

It's the only way anything is going to get done.