http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/06/22/coal-and-mortality-in-appalachia-and-making-history/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:54:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/06/22/coal-and-mortality-in-appalachia-and-making-history/#comment-79575 Emma Fuchsberg Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:20:13 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=11630#comment-79575 The coal industry wants you to think that coal is a cheap solution but as the study illustrates this just isn't the case. When you take the true costs into account like moonscapes left by mining, the deaths of coal miners, the neurological damages to future generations from mercury contaminated fish, the asthmatic children and heart attack victims, and those who suffer from cancer or strokes from breathing in Coal pollution, coal is the most costly form of energy on the planet. The hearing on Thursday is a great start to making a change! I have emailed my senator requesting to attend and I urge you to do the same!!! The coal industry wants you to think that coal is a cheap solution but as the study illustrates this just isn’t the case. When you take the true costs into account like moonscapes left by mining, the deaths of coal miners, the neurological damages to future generations from mercury contaminated fish, the asthmatic children and heart attack victims, and those who suffer from cancer or strokes from breathing in Coal pollution, coal is the most costly form of energy on the planet. The hearing on Thursday is a great start to making a change! I have emailed my senator requesting to attend and I urge you to do the same!!!

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