EPA head encouraging activists against coal on campus--which will eventually lead to tuition hikes

Dropping coal means higher tuition

EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has taken time out of her busy schedule of destroying the economy by meeting with college students who are environmental activists.

From McClatchey:

College environmental activists met Thursday with Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson to tell her what they're doing at their schools to try to shut down campus coal-fired heating plants.

"It's so important that your voices are heard, that campuses that are supposed to be teaching people aren't meanwhile polluting the surrounding community with mercury and costing the children a few IQ points because of the need to generate power. It's simply not fair," Jackson said.

The three dozen student activists from coal-consuming states such as Georgia, Kentucky and Indiana included leaders of Sierra Club campus groups that have been pushing to switch from coal to cleaner forms of energy.

"Make sure we don't lose what we have already in trying to keep stretching forward," Jackson told them. "Because it would be tragic if we take one step forward and then we end up taking five or six steps back."

Switching from coal, by the way, means paying more for energy, and that will mean tuition hikes. And will these activists, as the Occupy Wall Street protesters are doing now, be advocating for forgiveness of student load debt in a few years? The Sierra Club was involved in this powwow, and if you think that bringing up Occupy Wall Street is a non sequitir, you should reconsider.

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