Big Oil is blanketing Pennsylvania with its propaganda. Even EP science advisor, the climate scientist James Hansen, received one of the mailers.

We gave the information to the Wall Street Journal, which published the exposé today:

Some environmentalists are applauding state support for nuclear power.

“We need to have a fair system,” said Michael Shellenberger, president of Environmental Progress, a pro-nuclear policy center, who first publicized the oil lobby’s involvement.

Mr. Shellenberger said that if renewable energy gets subsidies because it is clean energy, so should nuclear. “Why are we taking down nuclear plants and leaving coal plants on line? This is completely ridiculous,” he said.

If the fossil energy lobby wins, the most vulnerable people — children, the elderly, and the ill — will pay the heaviest price.

Already, more people die prematurely from particulate matter pollution in Ohio than in any other state, according to the best-available science done by a team of researchers from MIT.

When particulates are inhaled, they can cause serious damage to the lungs and heart.

And the prevalence of asthma has actually increased in westernized countries including the U.S., in part due to particulate matter. And the science is clear that particulate matter increases childhood asthma attacks.

Ohio also has the third highest death rate (deaths per population). But if Big Oil gets its way, Ohio's nuclear plants will close and Ohio could become number one in death rate, as well as in death toll.