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New York Times: Joshua Anderson for The New York Times Miners in a break car that will take them down into a coal mine in Hazard, Ky.
Coal may be among the dirtiest fuels, but it is also cheap and plentiful in the United States, where it still accounts for nearly half of electricity generation.
Yet coal power`s rock-bottom price for utilities and consumers omits a host of attendant costs associated with its production, from public health impacts to local and global environmental effects. Measuring these impacts......
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Tallying Coal’s Hidden Cost
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 17th, 2011
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