From the Madison Daily Cardinal, http://www.dailycardinal.com/article/22010:

“Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday the Charter Street Heating Plant will switch from burning coal to biomass, a significant step toward reducing emissions in Dane County and the state. UW-Madison operates the Charter Street plant, which was found in 2007 to have violated the Clean Air Act limits on emissions.” (Read the rest at the above link.)

I find it interesting that Wisconsin, which is not a coal state and thus has none of the negative environmental impacts from coal mining and production that our region suffers, can find the political will to make this move for the health benefit of its people, while we in the Appalachian areas, who are demonstrably more effected by coal pollution and possess significantly more biomass resources to replace coal can not.

What will it take to convince our Governor to do the same?