Clean Coal? Just say no

onOct 30, 2008 @ 09:13 PDT

Coal is about acid rain and peasouper smogs, asthma and mercury contamination, radioactive waste emissions and ripping apart mountains, killing trees, lung cancer and, of course, global warming.

Coal emits more carbon dioxide for every unit of energy generated than any other fuel. Sure you can clean it up a bit – though the toxins you’ve taken out of the ground have to go somewhere. But clean coal? Just say no.

Excerpted from an excellent “clean coal” article in the Guardian

By Richard Littlemore

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BySharon Kelly

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