Here's a rather old article on the topic of coal and global warming in my home state of PA. PA is one of the worst states in the nation with pollution due to burning coal.
By Steve Ferris
Uniontown Herald-Standard
07/21/2006
A Philadelphia-based environmental advocacy group said the 150 coal-burning power plants that utility companies are planning to build across the country, including seven in Pennsylvania, would increase global warming emissions and create energy security and economic problems.
PennEnvironment criticizes the plant construction plans in a report, "Making Sense of the Coal Rush: The Consequences of Expanding America's Dependence on Coal," which it issued Thursday.
The report is based on information from the U.S. Energy Department and published reports.
Cited in the report are the proposed Greene Energy Resource Recovery Project, a waste coal-burning plant that would be built in Nemacolin in Greene County and the proposed Beech Hollow plant, which would also burn waste coal, in Robinson Township in Washington County.
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Penn Environment.
