Union of Concerned Scientists report – Coal Power In A Warming World (pdf)

Finally, scientists are saying what we have been saying all along.

“Even if coal (*carbon) capture and storage works on a commercial scale, coal will still be dirty,” said Steve Clemmer, UCS Clean Energy Program research director and co-author of the report. “The technology doesn’t address the environmental threat posed by mining, transporting and disposing of coal.” To make coal cleaner, he said, the government should ban mountaintop removal mining, strengthen oversight of mine waste slurry impoundments, and tighten and enforce mine safety laws.

Excerpt from here.

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Coal could be solid white and disperse pure ice crystals but as long as you were blowing up mountains to get it, it would never be clean.

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