Posted on 10/16/2020 7:48:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
North Carolina Democrat Cal Cunningham's family business repeatedly ranked among the state's top polluters. The candidate now presents himself as an environmental champion in his bid to unseat Republican senator Thom Tillis (N.C.).
Cunningham was a shareholder in the now-defunct Cunningham Brick Company as recently as 2015, court documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. According to emissions reports filed with the North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, the company released at least 1,700 tons of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and other harmful substances between 1993 and 2011, making it a major polluter in the state.
Cunningham has since placed environmental issues at the center of his campaign, railing against "longstanding" environmental disparities that disproportionately impact the state's "communities of color." But Cunningham Brick was ranked among the state's top 40 air polluters by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009, having released more than 114,000 pounds of "toxic" emissions.
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Is Sperm pollution?
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Like former Senator Al Gore here in TN...his family poured pollutants into the Tennessee River for years...
but he screamed at the rest of us about the Earth having a fever and it was all our fault...
But Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Cal Cunningham, etc. are perfectly okay to vote for.
I was told that (President Donald J.) Trump is hates the environment and wants to remove all of obama’s clean air and water protections.
Yet Cal Cunningham is the guy to vote for who will protect the environment or something.
Hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance make for a strange day and a predictable tomorrow and these are strange days, indeed.
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