Coal Mining Costing West Virginia $97.5 Million
July 2nd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Despite the PR campaigns by the coal lobby that imply that the state relies on coal income, an analysis by [&hellip
July 2nd, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
Despite the PR campaigns by the coal lobby that imply that the state relies on coal income, an analysis by [&hellip
January 19th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer
In five states 90% of the electricity comes from coal: Wyoming, North Dakota, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana. In Colorado it is 70%. A relatively few highly coal-dependent states is the reason that the overall American carbon footprint per capita is so much higher than Europeans. These polluter-states could see their export businesses threatened with carbon tariffs from the