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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1995 |
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ISBN | : 1428952160 |
This report, Coal Data: A Reference, summarizes basic information on the mining and use of coal, an important source of energy in the US. This report is written for a general audience. The goal is to cover basic material and strike a reasonable compromise between overly generalized statements and detailed analyses. The section S̀̀upplemental Figures and Tables̀̀ contains statistics, graphs, maps, and other illustrations that show trends, patterns, geographic locations, and similar coal-related information. The section C̀̀oal Terminology and Related Information ̀̀provides additional information about terms mentioned in the text and introduces some new terms. The last edition of Coal Data: A Reference was published in 1991. The present edition contains updated data as well as expanded reviews and additional information. Added to the text are discussions of coal quality, coal prices, unions, and strikes. The appendix has been expanded to provide statistics on a variety of additional topics, such as: trends in coal production and royalties from Federal and Indian coal leases, hours worked and earnings for coal mine employment, railroad coal shipments and revenues, waterborne coal traffic, coal export loading terminals, utility coal combustion byproducts, and trace elements in coal. The information in this report has been gleaned mainly from the sources in the bibliography. The reader interested in going beyond the scope of this report should consult these sources. The statistics are largely from reports published by the Energy Information Administration.
Author | : United States. President's Commission on Coal |
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Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Coal trade |
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Author | : United States. President's Commission on Coal |
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Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Coal |
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Author | : Eugene R. Slatick |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : 1422348644 |
Author | : U.S. Dept. of Energy. Energy Information Administration |
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Release | : 1989 |
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Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Coal trade |
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Author | : États-Unis. President's commission on coal |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : 9780960380626 |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Coal trade |
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Author | : U.S. President's Commission on Coal |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Richard Martin |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2015-04-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1466879246 |
Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal generates almost 45 percent of the world's power. Our modern technological society would be inconceivable without coal and the energy it provides. Unfortunately, that society will not survive unless we wean ourselves off coal. The largest single source of greenhouse gases, coal is responsible for 43 percent of the world's carbon emissions. Richard Martin, author of SuperFuel, argues that to limit catastrophic climate change, we must find a way to power our world with less polluting energy sources, and we must do it in the next couple of decades—or else it is "game over." It won't be easy: as coal plants shut down across the United States, and much of Europe turns to natural gas, coal use is growing in the booming economies of Asia— particularly China and India. Even in Germany, where nuclear power stations are being phased out in the wake of the Fukushima accident, coal use is growing. Led by the Sierra Club and its ambitious "Beyond Coal" campaign, environmentalists hope to drastically reduce our dependence on coal in the next decade. But doing so will require an unprecedented contraction of an established, lucrative, and politically influential worldwide industry. Big Coal will not go gently. And its decline will dramatically change lives everywhere—from Appalachian coal miners and coal company executives to activists in China's nascent environmental movement. Based on a series of journeys into the heart of coal land, from Wyoming to West Virginia to China's remote Shanxi Province, hundreds of interviews with people involved in, or affected by, the effort to shrink the industry, and deep research into the science, technology, and economics of the coal industry, Coal Wars chronicles the dramatic stories behind coal's big shutdown—and the industry's desperate attempts to remain a global behemoth. A tour de force of literary journalism, Coal Wars will be a milestone in the climate change battle.