Coal

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General Coverage

• State-by-State Guide to Information on Coal in the United States
• International Information on Coal
• Books about coal
• Coal Issues Calendar
• Clean Coal
• Citizen groups working on coal issues
• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Existing U.S. Coal Mines
• Coal and jobs in the United States
• Journalists covering coal
• Coal plant litigation
• Nonviolent direct actions against coal
• Coal Studies
• Tennessee sludge spill
• Coal Activist Videos
• Wikipedia articles on coal
• CoalSwarm

Coal and power industry data

• Coal exports
• Coal-fired power plant capacity and generation
• Coal reserves
• Corporate market share of global coal export trade
• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• eGRID (EPA emissions database)
• Global use and production of coal
• Powder River Basin
• Foreign ownership of U.S. corporations

The Politics of Coal

• The 2008 economic crisis and coal
• Barack Obama statements on coal
• Coal and jobs in the United States
• Coal money in politics
• Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and coal
• Environmental justice and coal
• Public polling on coal and alternatives
• Obama administration actions on coal
• U.S. coal politics

Coal-related companies, agencies, and lobbying groups

Coal lobby

• Lobby groups, front groups, and trade associations
• Coal industry PR companies, advisers and lobbyists
• Coal industry PR and marketing campaigns
• "Clean coal"
• Coal money in politics
• U.S. coal industry lobbyists 2008
• U.S. power company and utility lobbyists 2008 and 2009

Coal project financing and construction

• Banks and other financiers of coal
• Bechtel Group, Inc.

Electric Power

• Power companies and agencies
• Rural electric cooperatives in the United States
• Headquarters of U.S. coal power companies
• Key private sector decision makers on coal

Coal mining

• Coal mining companies and agencies
• Headquarters of U.S. coal mining companies
• Global list of coal mining companies and agencies
• Existing coal mines in the United States
• Proposed coal mines

Synfuels

• Synfuels companies and agencies

Transportation

• Railroads and coal

Coal-related environmental issues

• Climate impacts of coal plants
• Coal waste
• Dispelling the myths of the acid rain story
• Environmental impacts of coal
• External costs of coal
• Greenhouse Gas Statistics and Conversions
• Longwall mining
• Mercury and coal
• Methane released by coal mining
• Mountaintop removal
• Sulfur dioxide and coal
• Tennessee sludge spill
• Additional articles on the environmental issues of coal

Citizen activism on coal

• Capitol Power Plant
• Citizen groups working on coal issues
• Coal Issues Calendar
• Coal Activist Videos
• Coal and Native American tribal lands
• Coal Finance Day of Action
• Coal moratorium
• Coal plant conversion projects
• Coal plant litigation
• Divestment and shareholder action on coal
• CoalSwarm organizational website
• Gordon Gee campaign
• How to Research a Proposed Coal Plant
• Nonviolent direct actions against coal
• Opposition to existing coal plants
• Philanthropy and coal
• Presentations about coal and alternatives
• Testimony on proposed coal plants
• Additional articles about citizen activism on coal

Coal economics and subsidies

• Coal and jobs in the United States
• Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and coal
• Federal coal leasing
• Financial Risks of Coal Energy Investment
• Rural Electric Cooperatives and Coal
• State coal subsidies
• State-funded coal marketing programs
• U.S. Air Force and Coal

Coal plants

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Proposed coal plants (international)
• Coal plant cancellations
• What happened to the 151 proposed coal plants?
• Campus coal plants
• Coal plants near residential areas
• Coal plant conversion projects

Coal and power industry data

• Coal exports
• Coal-fired power plant capacity and generation
• Coal reserves
• Corporate market share of global coal export trade
• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• eGRID (EPA emissions database)
• Global use and production of coal
• Powder River Basin
• Foreign ownership of U.S. corporations

"Clean coal"

• Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
• "Clean coal"
• Schwarzenegger clause
• Additional articles on carbon capture & storage and "clean coal"

Synthetic fuels from coal

• Coal-to-Liquids
• Coal-to-Liquids Fuel Promotion Act of 2007
• U.S. Air Force and Coal
• Additional synfuels articles

Articles and resources

Related SourceWatch articles

• Campus coal plants
• Coal and jobs
• Coal-fired power plant capacity and generation
• Coal phase-out
• Coal plant conversion projects
• Coal plants near residential areas
• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Opposition to existing coal plants
• Retrofit vs. Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants
• Concentrating solar power land use
• Conservation and efficiency programs as an alternative to coal
• Google Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal initiative
• Gore zero-carbon proposal
• Hawaii Solar Roofs Law
• No-Coal Scenarios
• Photovoltaic power as an alternative to coal
• Pickens Plan
• Thermal solar power as an alternative to coal
• Wind power as an alternative to coal
• Retrofit vs. Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants
• Natural gas transmission leakage rates
• United States and coal

External articles

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