Mitch McConnell's Kentucky: an environmental disaster area

Conservative politicians like Mitch McConnell believe environmental regulations are bad for the economy and so it comes as no surprise that the price for such policies is reflected in a Kentucky that's sick and getting sicker. Nonethelss, weak environmental protections don't see to have helped to relieve the State's chronic poverty.

We will be looking in more detail at the Kentucky environment and adding more information to this post. But in the meantime we invite you to take a look below. And if you have any informatio to share please write a comment.

• In late 2007, Forbes Magazine rated Kentucky 45th out of 50 in their ranking of America's Greenest States.
• Kentucky ranks 41st for Air Pollution as measured by fine particulates in the air. 
• No 1 for cancer deaths in the nation

Here's a quick pass over Eastern Kentucky where they're chopping off the tops of mountains and flooding ponds and streams with all kind of toxic chemicals.