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Letter to the HHS Secretary
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Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
US Department of Health and Human Services
200 independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC 20201
Dear Secretary Sebelius,
Did you know that in the Northern Great Plains Region of Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota are many areas being strip-mined for coal, and the coal burned in power plants? The most unfortunate part about the mining and the burning of the coal is that the coal in this Region is laced with uranium and other radioactive materials. This Region also has the highest rate of lung cancer in the United States.
If the coal is not burned within these states, it is shipped to coal-fired power plants on the East and West Coasts as it is considered to be the best coal low in sulfur. However, no one is considering that it is also laced with uranium and other radioactive materials.
As you have stated: Our goal is for all Americans to live healthier, more prosperous, and more productive lives. I am sure you mean all Americans also living in the Northern Great Plains Region, and all the people in the United States affected by smoke from coal fired power plants.
I am sending this letter to you to ask you to please encourage the President and the Congress to pass a law requiring monitoring and regulation of radioactive particles coming out of coal-fired power plants, and in the strip mining of coal. The lives of all Americans will then be healthier. Thank you.
Sincerely,
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