{"id":38305,"date":"2011-05-13T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=38305"},"modified":"2011-05-13T19:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T00:04:48","slug":"follow-up-from-the-yes-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/follow-up-from-the-yes-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up from the Yes Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note:<\/strong> I received this from the Yes Lab today in my email and thought a little follow-up might be nice. Unfortunately, the email links to a pdf where it says “your letter” and “see this response,” and I’m not sure how to link to a pdf from here. My apologies. – amanda<\/em><\/p>\n

The following letter has been sent to lawyers for Peabody Energy in response to their threat:<\/p>\n

Dear Andrew Baum, Foley Lardner LLP, and Peabody Energy,<\/p>\n

Thank you for your thoughtful letter demanding that we remove Peabody\u2019s name from www.coalcares.org<\/a> and cease falsely suggesting that Peabody cares about kids made sick by coal.<\/p>\n

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Puff and Ash try to set the record straight and get tough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Your threat, although entirely baseless (see this response, and the EFF’s blog post<\/a> later today), did make us realize one thing: that Peabody, despite being our country’s largest coal producer, and one of the largest lobbyists against common-sense policy, accounts for a mere 17% of U.S. coal production. The remaining 83% comes from 28 other companies<\/a>, who are, every bit as much as Peabody, giving kids asthma attacks and other illnesses.<\/p>\n

As even you may agree, the root of the problem is not Peabody, but rather our system of subsidies, regulations, and lobbying that lets your whole industry continue its lethal work. To make this clear, we have changed every instance of the word \u201cPeabody\u201d on www.coalcares.org<\/strong><\/a> to a rotating selection of the names of other large U.S. coal producers who, like Peabody, also need to be stopped from killing kids.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\nCoal is Killing Kids and the Yes Lab
\ncoalcares@yeslab.org, (314) 472-5539<\/p>\n

P.S. You suggest in your letter that \u201cPeabody has a First Amendment right not to be involved with the dissemination of a message with which it does not agree,\u201d a statement which, while completely untrue, does recall the World Resources Institute\u2019s longstanding demand that you cease falsely attributing to them<\/a> the nonsense statistic that \u201cfor every 10-fold increase in per-capita energy use, individuals live 10 years longer.\u201d As the WRI notes:<\/p>\n

First, WRI has never made such an assertion and has never done analysis to that effect. Second, this conclusion ignores critical factors related to energy production and human health. WRI\u2019s longstanding support for a global transition to cleaner, low-carbon energy is well-documented.<\/p>\n

We would be grateful if you would stop misquoting WRI and issue a corrective statement within the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: I received this from the Yes Lab today in my email and thought a little follow-up might be nice. Unfortunately, the email links to a pdf where it says “your letter” and “see this response,” and I’m not sure how to link to a pdf from here. My apologies. – amanda The following letter … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}