“In Homer City, economic concerns outweigh environmental ones for many residents who have lived all their lives in the shadow of the plant’s 1,217-foot-high chimney—one of the tallest in North America.”
About the Homer City, PA coal plant under fire from enviros and the EPA, the Wall Street Journal reports:
…”People love that plant,” says Mark Sardone, a clerk at the post office. People need electricity, he says, and he would prefer living next door to a coal-fired plant than to a nuclear one. “I’d rather breathe a little coal dirt than get irradiated”…
Actually, the coal plant is irradiating Mr. Sardone more than a nuclear plant would. If operating under NRC regulation, that coal plant would be shut down.