Tag: coal
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Billions of Gallons of Water Saved by Transition Away From Coal
Credit: Pixabay. The ongoing transition from coal to natural gas and renewables in the U.S. electricity sector is dramatically reducing the industry’s water use, a new Duke University study finds. “While most attention has been focused on the climate and air quality benefits of switching from coal, this new study shows that the transition to…
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A crisis in Kentucky shows the high cost of clean drinking water
Photo: Junior Hunt, left, and Bobby Fletcher pick up donated water in Huntleyville, Ky., to share with Martin County residents. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) April 16 2019 LOVELY, Ky. — When the well water here turned brown and started tasting salty, Heather Blevins’s parents hooked their property on Dead Man’s Curve into the municipal…
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Alabama: Birmingham opposes coal mine near drinking water source
Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com A drinking water intake facility for the Birmingham Water Works Board along the Black Warrior River’s Mulberry Fork is about five miles from the site of a proposed coal mine in Walker County, Ala. This facility provides drinking water for 200,000 people. The Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Water Works Board…
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Global coal industry using as much water as a billion people each year
We already know that coal-fired power plants are bad for the planet, but that’s usually because we are just thinking about the enormous amounts of carbon dioxide emissions they contribute to our atmosphere. A new Greenpeace report entitled The Great Water Grab sheds light on another terrifying aspect of the coal industry – its astronomical…
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“Wild, Wonderful” West Virginia’s Decapitated Mountains and Deformed Fish
Photo credit: Mandel Ngan Getty Images A scientist documents the poisoning of the state’s waters by the coal industry I spot a mountain peak covered in dense forest, then another and another. But then, where I expect to see yet another forested mountaintop, I see instead a stunted plateau—a mountain whose once distinct peak has…
