Resources: 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.
Fuel supply
Coal mining
Citizens Coal Council, Mountaintop Removal Strip Mining, 2000. Available online at www.citizenscoalcouncil.org
Henry, Katherine, Coal Mining in the United States: SMCRA's Successful Blueprint, archived online at http://www.osmre.gov
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.
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.
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Laws: A Scientific and Public Health Analysis of Arsenic Occurrence in Drinking Water, Its Health Effects, and EPA's Outdated Arsenic Tap Water Standard, Report prepared for the Natural Resources Defense Council, February 2000.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/
Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999.
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.
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.
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/
