tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post2015920797862772525..comments2024-03-07T02:00:01.582-05:00Comments on NEI Nuclear Notes: Who's who in opposing credible information on new baseload energy?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10911751.post-83346964088893961412008-01-12T12:19:00.000-05:002008-01-12T12:19:00.000-05:00Kelly:I think that PANIC's first question - "Why i...Kelly:<BR/><BR/>I think that PANIC's first question - "Why is the cancer rate so high in Southern Maryland?" - has a rather simple, old fashioned answer. After all, Southern Maryland is still a tobacco growing region that includes a town named Marlboro! I travel through that region fairly regularly and drive past the tobacco barns and the trading houses. Fortunately, many of those are abandoned now, but the lingering effects of that cash crop will remain for quite some time. <BR/><BR/>The cancer rate might also be affected by the enormous coal fired power plant on the northern side of the Nice Bridge where Route 301 crosses the Potomac. It could also be affected by the fact that Maryland is downwind of a lot of West Virginia and Virginia based coal plants and has one of the worst "non attainment" records of any state on the east coast.Rod Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652375336090790205noreply@blogger.com