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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Thanks, neighbor, but I draw the line at black lung When taking pride in your roots means breathing local coal dust	Ashley Braun	10 Jun 2008	Gristmill
May I suggest that literally sharing a part of your local history can, in fact, be taken too far? Snipped from The New York Times:'Coal is part of us,' said William Liptok, director of the county's public works department. Not only does nearly every family in town have roots in mining, Mr. Liptok said, but virtually everyone breathes in coal dust, since it wafts into the air in the winter when trucks remove the boilers' ashes. [emphasis is mine] How's that, c ...
Topics: coal, energy, health, West Virginia (all these topics)

How clean is clean coal? A video on the great coal myth	David Roberts	23 May 2008	Gristmill
The new but already-going-gangbusters Washington Independent has teamed up with the also new and also gangbusters American News Project to put together a video called "How clean is clean coal?" Good stuff:
Topics: coal, energy, health, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

A story in pictures	David Roberts	19 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Minorities are 79 percent more likely than whites to live in neighborhoods where industrial pollution ... is suspected of posing the greatest health danger, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.... The Government Accountability Office concluded earlier this year that EPA devoted little attention to environmental equality when it developed three major rules to implement the Clean Air Act between 2000 and 2004. The EPA's inspector general r ...
Topics: coal, energy, environmental justice, health, US EPA (all these topics)

File under: Sherlock, No sh*t	David Roberts	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I give you clean coal: The study, 'Relations between Health Indicators and Residential Proximity to Coal Mining in West Virginia,' found that in the 14 counties where the biggest coal mining operations are located residents reported higher rates of cardiopulmonary disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, diabetes, and lung and kidney disease. In each of those counties, mining topped 4 million tons of coal a year.
Topics: coal, energy, health, mining, West Virginia (all these topics)

The health externalities of coal	David Roberts	28 Jan 2008	Gristmill
A while back I commented on a post over at Common Tragedies, an excellent environmental economics blog of recent vintage. As is my inimitable style, my comments were hastily written and full of wild generalizations. One had to do with the health externalities of coal burning, which I alleged were extensive. Recently, an email to the post's author came to my rescue: I'm just commenting on your last note. You shouldn't be so dismissive of the health effects from ...
Topics: coal, energy, health (all these topics)

Black Lung Is the New Black Rates of black lung disease double in a decade		14 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:01 PM on 14 Sep 2007 Rates of black lung disease have doubled in the last decade, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The disease, which is caused by inhaling coal dust, now occurs in almost 10 percent of coal miners who work 25 or more years underground, as opposed to about 4 percent a decade ago. Safety standards enacted in 1969 were supposed to prevent black lung altoget ...
Topics: coal, energy, health, mining, news (all these topics)

Dave's Second Law of Sustainability Politics	David Roberts	28 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Clean up coal emissions and you end up with more -- and more toxic -- coal ash. You get cleaner air, but you get ash that can't be recycled (into, e.g., concrete). You breath free, but you've got arsenic and mercury leaching into your groundwater from coal-ash landfills. Look at this vintage coal magic: There are ways to remove the pollutants from emissions without making the ash unusable [for recycling]. But that equipment can be up to four times more expensive, ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, health, water pollution (all these topics)

Coal kills Report from India	Gar Lipow	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Daphne Wysham, co-director of the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network sends the following from Angul, Orissa, the heart of India's Coal Belt, on March 15, 2007: The smell of burning coal in household fires hangs in the air. Bicyclists carry heavy bags of coal from the mines to sell for a few rupees. They are overtaken by huge lorries carrying more than the tonnage they are supposed to carry -- all part of the black market in coal -- down busy streets, with cattle l ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, health, India (all these topics)

Moving Mountains Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back	Erik Reece	16 Feb 2006	Main Dish
This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. Not since the glaciers pushed toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region. A mountaintop no more. Photo: Viv ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, environmental justice, health, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics)

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