The Reality of Coal

• The more people rely on coal combustion for producing electricity the higher predicted health consequences and global warming will become

• Coal -fired power plants account for over 1/3 of CO2 emissions.

• Air pollution triggers, or develops attacks of asthma which affect about 9% of children in the US

• Coal pollutants rank in 4th place as the leading causes of death in the US

• Coal combustion contributes to global warming

• 21 million people in the United States live just 5 miles of a coal-fired power plant

• The United States has proposed 150+ new coal fired power plants

• Coal mining accounts for half of all US mining fatalities that occur each year.

• Coal is nonrenewable energy source and it‘s fast depleting and it cannot be recycled, while wind power on the other hand is a renewable energy source

• Approximately every coal plant creates 10,000 tons of sulfur dioxide, that creates acid rain. The acid rain then damages buildings, lakes and forests.

• 800+ square miles mountains are already destroyed due to Mountaintop removal mining

• Appalachia has the poorest socioeconomic conditions and it is also the heaviest coal mining areas