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Can Coal Ever Be Clean?
March 18, 2014/
It’s the dirtiest of fossil fuels. We burn eight billion tons
of it a year, with growing consequences.
The world must face the question.
Coal provides 40 percent of the world’s electricity. It produces 39 percent of global CO₂ emissions. It kills thousands a year in mines, many more with polluted air.
By Michelle Nijhuis
Photograph by Robb Kendrick
Full Story: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/coal/nijhuis-text
