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Cradle to Grave: The Environmental Impacts from Coal
The electric power industry is the largest toxic polluter in the country, and coal, which is used to generate over half of the electricity produced in the U.S., is the dirtiest of all fuels. From mining to coal cleaning, from transportation to electricity generation to disposal, coal releases numerous toxic…
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Out of Sight: Haze in our National Parks
Wilderness is at the heart of our national identity. The sheer beauty and variety of America’s natural environment, the vastness of her natural resources – and our responses to them throughout our history – define us as a nation. In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote: “Our village life would stagnate…
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Laid to Waste: The Dirty Secret of Combustion Waste from America’s Power Plants
The Problem The electric power industry is the largest toxic polluter in the country. Producing electricity from coal and oil releases a wide range of pollutants into the environment. In addition to toxic air pollution from power plant smokestacks, large volumes of toxic chemicals are produced at coal and oil-fired…
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Out of Breath: Health Effects from Ozone in the Eastern United States
This report describes the methods and results of an analysis estimating adverse human health effects due to ground-level exposures to ozone. In particular, the analysis estimates the incidence of hospital admissions attributable to ozone exposures in the 37 eastern states and the District of Columbia, that form the “OTAG” region….
