For those BP'rs that regret that Hilary Lambert Hopper is on sabbatical from the list... she is currently working with Sierra Club in Kentucky and as a result is neck deep in the coal sludge disaster. If you are not aware of what this is about then check out this website for graphics and links. http://www.geocities.com/kyriverpal/martincoky.html This is a weird scene in which the company that is responsible for the disaster has been given the role of taking care of the disaster -- including guarded roadblock checkpoints to keep out non-locals and the press. Health risks, corporate responsibility, environmental disaster, cover-up, BIG COAL (like BIG OIL), and the oddities of environmental politics. Overlay the history of the Kentucky coal industry and the socio-economic realities of regional poverty. This is NOT an environmental disaster in a remote and unpopulated region, like the arctic or the ocean... people live and support themselves on their land that has been polluted, they are also, some of them, employed by the very same company that is responsible for the disaster. ][<en