↑ 50.0 50.1 Environmental Impacts of Coal Mining, World Coal Institute, accessed April 2008. ↑ "Coal mine air pollution targeted" WY Business report, June 18, 2010. ↑ Brian Merchant, "Coal Plants Do $62 Billion of Damage a Year to US Environment Treehugger, Oct. 19, 2009.get price
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Vivian Stockman talked about the environmental impact of coal mining in Appalachia. She said her group, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, began 30 years prior when a group of citizensget price
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Apr 16, 2019 In August of 2018, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved an environmental report that allows Alton to expand its mine onto 2,114 acres of public land to extract more than 30 million tons of coal.The complaint argues that the BLM failed to analyze the impacts of mercury pollution from burning coal, did not consider the enormous social costs of increased carbon emissions, and refused get price
Additional Environmental Impacts. Coal mining operations radically alter local ecosystems and wildlife habitats, by introducing roads, clearing trees and removing large sections of land.get price
The effects of mining coal on the environment. There are 2 ways to mine coal Strip Mining and Underground Mining both ways have their own impact to the environment and health. We know it but coal is such a cheap energy source that we don’t want to let go of it. The negative effects of coal mining cannot be disputed:get price
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