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  2. Health and environmental impact of the coal industry - Wikipedia

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    The Mpumalanga highveld in South Africa is the most polluted area in the world due to the mining industry and coal plant power stations [37] and the lowveld near the famous Kruger Park is under threat of new mine projects as well. [38] Illustration of air pollutants generated by U.S. power plants (includes both coal-fired and oil-fired plants)

  3. Coal-fired power station - Wikipedia

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    Coal power plant wastestreams. Coal burning power plants kill many thousands of people every year with their emissions of particulates, microscopic air pollutants that enter human lungs and other human organs and induce a variety of adverse medical conditions, including asthma, heart disease, low birth weight and cancers.

  4. Energy accidents - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, in the 2000s, after three decades of regulation on the Environmental impact of the coal industry, including regulations in the 1970s and 1990s from the Clean Air Act, an act created to cut down on pollution related deaths from fossil fuel usage, US coal fired power plants were estimated, in the 2000s, to continue to cause ...

  5. Health effects of coal ash - Wikipedia

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    Coal ash contains many toxic substances that may affect human health, if people are exposed to them above a certain concentration in the form of particulate matter.So it is necessary to avoid situations in which employees working in coal-fired power plants or public members living close to coal ash landfills will be exposed to high coal ash dust concentrations. [4]

  6. Supreme Court seems skeptical of EPA's 'good neighbor' rule ...

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    States that contribute to ground-level ozone, or smog, are required to submit plans ensuring that coal-fired power plants and other industrial sites don’t add significantly to air pollution in ...

  7. Coal pollution mitigation - Wikipedia

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    Newly built coal-fired power plants can be made to immediately use gasification of the coal prior to combustion. This makes it much easier to separate off the CO 2 from the exhaust fumes, making the process cheaper. This gasification process is done in new coal-burning power plants such as the coal-burning power plant at Tianjin, called "GreenGen".

  8. Why Coal Is Part of China's Pollution Solution

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    China's pollution problems are well known. Recently the city of Harbin saw levels of fine particulate matter 40 times the recommended levels by the World Health Organization. While coal is a big ...

  9. Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources

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    Some coal-fired power stations may operate for 50 years but others may be shut down after 20 years, [18] or less. [19] According to one 2019 study considering the time value of GHG emissions with techno-economic assessment considerably increases the life cycle emissions from carbon intensive fuels such as coal.