Oklahoma Senator Inhofe Walks Out on TVA Disaster Hearings

Senator Inhofe walked out of a congressional hearing on the TVA disaster because he did not want to hear the testimony of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Director Steven Smith, a man he calls an “extremist.”

Inhofe has ranted that extremists are taking advantage of the TVA collapse(s) to further their own political agendas. But, as Dave Cooper points out in this article, Inhofe has a political agenda of his own: to continue receiving massive campaign contributions from the coal industry.

At the end of the article, Cooper includes videos taken of the Emory River near the dam before the collapse. I doubt this spot will be as popular this coming summer—or the next, or the next, or the next….

Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, who has stated that global warming is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” walked out in the middle of Senate hearings today on the worst man-made environmental disaster in US history, TVA’s colossal coal ash catastrophe near Kingston, TN.

Jan. 8 hearings of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee were called to allow TVA Chairman Tom Kilgore, local Roane County emergency officials and environmental experts an opportunity to shed light on the causes of the Kingston impoundment failure, which dumped over one billion gallons of coal ash containing over one million pounds of arsenic and other dangerous heavy metals into tributaries of the Tennessee River.

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