The horrific Santa Claus murders have gotten more play in the past week by far than an environmental disaster that destroyed a dozen homes--and a train!--and now threatens the water supply of millions.
The equivalent of forty-eight Exxon Valdezes broke up in Tennessee last Monday, when a dike holding back 400 acres of coal ash slurry failed, threatening water supplies with massive quantities of mecury, arsenic, lead, and a raft of other nasty poisons.
Somehow, it seemed that much more incongruous to learn in the New York Times just a few days later that coal is making a comeback for home heating.
