coal pollution Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 29 May 2013 18:43:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Coal Pollution Makes Our Kids Sick (video) https://www.greenoptimistic.com/coal-sick-kids-20130529/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/coal-sick-kids-20130529/#respond Wed, 29 May 2013 18:43:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37770 Scraping the mountaintops for coal is the worst practice the environment has ever had to face. Despite all the troubles that mining for coal does to humanity and the environment, the US relies heavily on the black matter to power itself and sustain this unsustainable way of living. The Sierra Club has put up on […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/coal-sick-kids-20130529/feed/ 0 37770 Environmental Regulations Will Force More US Coal Plants to Retire https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:21:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26594 The US Power Grid is supported by a number of power-generation technologies, coal, oil, wind, hydro, nuclear, to name a few. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 3.9 million gigawatt-hours [Gwh] of electricity was generated by all US power plants in 2009. Close to 1.8 million GWh of that electricity was produced by […]

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