Environmental impact of the coal industry | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 15/05/2019

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00:02:14 1 Land use management
00:02:23 1.1 Impact to land and surroundings
00:07:04 2 Water management
00:08:56 2.1 River water pollution
00:10:32 2.2 Waste management
00:11:25 2.3 Wildlife
00:14:11 3 Air pollution
00:14:20 3.1 Air emissions
00:17:30 3.2 Mercury emissions
00:19:11 3.3 Annual excess mortality and morbidity
00:20:27 3.4 Economic costs
00:21:56 4 Greenhouse gas emissions
00:24:11 5 Radiation exposure
00:26:03 6 Dangers to miners
00:29:17 7 See also



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The environmental impact of the coal industry includes issues such as land use, waste management, water and air pollution, caused by the coal mining, processing and the use of its products.  In addition to atmospheric pollution, coal burning produces hundreds of millions of tons of solid waste products annually, including fly ash, bottom ash, and flue-gas desulfurization sludge, that contain mercury, uranium, thorium, arsenic, and other heavy metals. Coal is the largest contributor to the human-made increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.
There are severe health effects caused by burning coal. According to a report by the World Health Organization in 2008, coal particulates pollution are estimated to shorten approximately 1,000,000 lives annually worldwide. A 2004 study commissioned by environmental groups, but contested by the US EPA, concluded that coal burning costs 24,000 lives a year in the United States. More recently, an academic study estimated that the premature deaths from coal related air pollution was about 52,000.  When compared to electricity produced from natural gas via hydraulic fracturing, coal electricity is 10-100 times more toxic, largely due to the amount of particulate matter emitted during combustion. When coal is compared to solar photovoltaic generation, the latter could save 51,999 American lives per year if solar were to replace coal generation in the U.S. Due to the decline of jobs related to coal mining a study found that approximately one American suffers a premature death from coal pollution for every job remaining in coal mining.In addition, the list of historical coal mining disasters is a long one, although work related coal deaths has declined substantially as safety measures have been enacted and underground mining has given up market share to surface mining. Underground mining hazards include suffocation, gas poisoning, roof collapse and gas explosions. Open cut hazards are principally mine wall failures and vehicle collisions. In the United States, an average of 26 coal miners per year died in the decade 2005–2014.