Your editorial on the topic of coal providing cheap power was incredibly shortsighted, especially for a newspaper that is published in the Adirondacks, the epicenter of the acid rain environmental disaster that afflicted the Northeast in the 1960s and 1970s. This acid rain was caused by the high concentration of pollutants from the coal-fired power plants of the Midwest, resulting in the nearly complete elimination of all life in the lakes and streams of the Adirondacks which were basically reduced to pools and rivers of sulphuric acid. Perhaps your editorial writer is too young to remember this deadly situation, which was not corrected until the formation of the Environmental Protection…