Online resources on coal and surface mining

The RU Mining Study team has been combing through various websites that provide information on coal, coal mining, using coal to produce gas, surface mining, and other topics. The following websites collect voices from across the spectrum, including coal industry representatives and environmental groups. This list is by no means comprehensive -- indeed, it merely suggests how complex the topic of coal surface mining is. These are presented in no particular order:

• "Coal: Delivering Sustainable Development"- from the World Coal Institute
• "Climate Change and the Potential of Coal Gasification" from Geotimes
• Using Coal Mine Ventilation air as Fuel - from Gizmag
• The Coal Resource - A Comprehensive Overview of Coal - World Coal Institute
• Statement to the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, by Michael Calaghan, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
  
• Coal-Fired Power Plant schematic - from the Tennessee Valley Authority
• "Cleaning up coal" - from the U.S. Department of Energy
• "Moving the Mountains: An Exploration of Mountaintop Removal Mining" - from The Roanoke Times
  
• "Dirty Coal Power" - from the Sierra Club
• "Moving Mountains" - by Erik Reece, Orion Magazine
  
• "Appalachian Mountaintop Removal" - from GoogleEarth
• "End Mountaintop Removal" - from ILoveMountains.Org