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Even when it's sitting in storage, coal threatens human health

  • Written by Akshaya Jha, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
imageCoal stockpile at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin power plant, 2011.Michael Pereckas, CC BY

President Trump and his appointees have pledged to end what they call the “war on coal” – policies designed to reduce the health and environmental impacts from producing and burning coal, such as toxic air pollution and mine waste disposal in streams...

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