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Impacts of coal-fired electric generation


Coal-burning power plants

Citizens Coal Council, Hoosier Environmental Council, Clean Air Task Force, Laid to Waste, March 2000. Available online at http://www.catf.us/publications/view/6

Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-767 (Steam-Electric Plant Operation and Design Report), US Department of Energy (DOE), 1991.

Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at /assets/documents/jump.jsp?origID=pdf-54


Fuel supply

Coal mining

Citizens Coal Council, Mountaintop Removal Strip Mining, 2000. Available online at www.citizenscoalcouncil.org/facts/mtntop.htm

Henry, Katherine, Coal Mining in the United States: SMCRA's Successful Blueprint, archived online at http://www.osmre.gov/clips97.htm

National Mining Association, Facts About Coal, online at www.nma.org/statistics/pub_facts_coal.asp


Coal transportation

Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at /assets/documents/jump.jsp?origID=pdf-39

US EPA, National Air Pollutant Emission Trends, 1900 - 1998, EPA-454/R-00-002, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, March 2000. Available online at www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/trends/trends98/index.html

Coal storage

Citizens Coal Council, Hoosier Environmental Council, Clean Air Task Force, Laid to Waste, March 2000. Available online at http://www.catf.us/publications/view/6


Water use

Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at /assets/documents/jump.jsp?origID=pdf-39

Utility Data Institute (UDI). Power Statistics Database, 1995.

US EPA, Economic and Engineering Analyses of the Proposed Section 316(b) New Facility Rule, EPA-821-R-00-019, Office of Water, August 2000. Online at www.epa.gov/ostwater/316b/support/index.html

US Geological Survey (USGS), Offstream Use, Available online at water.usgs.gov/watuse/pdf1995/pdf/summary.pdf


Air pollution

Clean Air Network, America's Poisoned Power: Electricity & Pollution from Power Plants.

Clean Air Network, Fast Facts on Power Plants, April 2000.

Mushak, Paul, Arsenic and Old Laws: A Scientific and Public Health Analysis of Arsenic Occurrence in Drinking Water, Its Health Effects, and EPA's Outdated Arsenic Tap Water Standard, Report prepared for the Natural Resources Defense Council, February 2000. Available online at www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/arsenic/aolinx.asp

National Wildlife Federation. The Toll from Coal. Available online at www.nwf.org/washingtondc/resources.html

Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/jump.jsp?origID=pdf-32

Worldwatch Institute, Phasing Out Coal: Environmental Concerns, Subsidy Cuts Fuel Global Decline, press release. Available at www.worldwatch.org/press/news/1999/08/25/


Wastes generated

Solid waste

Citizens Coal Council, Hoosier Environmental Council, Clean Air Task Force, Laid to Waste, March 2000. Available online at http://www.catf.us/publications/view/6

Hopkins, W.A., C.L. Rowe, J.H. Roe, D.E. Scott, M.T. Mendonia, and J.D. Congdon, Ecotoxicological Impact of Coal Combustion Byproducts on Amphibians and Reptiles, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, presented at the Society for Environmental Toxicolgy and Chemstry, Abstract No. PMP009, 1999.

US EPA, Report to Congress: Wastes from the Combustion of Fossil Fuels, March 1999. Available online at www.epa.gov/epaoswer/other/fossil/volume_1.pdf

Cooling water discharge

Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at /assets/documents/jump.jsp?origID=pdf-32

US EPA, Economic and Engineering Analyses of the Proposed Section 316(b) New Facility Rule, EPA-821-R-00-019, Office of Water, August 2000. Online at http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/316b/

Waste heat

US Department of Energy (DOE), Vision 21: A Concept for Tomorrow's Pollution-Free Energy Plant, Available online at http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/powersystems/vision21/index.html

Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at /assets/documents/jump.jsp?origID=pdf-32


Industry perspectives

National Mining Association, Facts About Coal, online at www.nma.org/statistics/pub_facts_coal.asp

American Coal Foundation http://www.teachcoal.org/



 

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