Charity hates coal, wants it stopped. Screw the charity.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The advisory board to the American Lung Association of West Virginia has voted to oppose a planned multistate power line.

In a letter to the state Public Service Commission, the board urged the PSC to reject the line because its construction would only serve to continue the nation's reliance on coal-fired power plants.

The board said it is concerned for those living downwind from such power stations who suffer from respiratory problems.

Allegheny Energy and partner American Electric Power are proposing to build the 765-kilovolt Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline, or PATH, from AEP's John Amos plant in Putnam County, across parts of northern Virginia, and end at a substation near Kemptown, Md.

A PSC decision on the line isn't expected until next year.

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This line will put a lot of miners back to work.

WV coal will almost single-handedly be powering the entire Washington/Baltimore corridor.

Maybe we can turn out the lights at the White House and the capitol...