Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future is a book by Jeff Goodell
which claims that coal
mining
is one of America's largest and most influential industries. Goodell suggests that coal mining is deadly and environmentally destructive.
Jeff Goodell
Jeff Goodell is an American author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. Goodell's recent writings focus on energy and environmental issues. In 2006 he published his most popular book to date Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future...
which claims that coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
mining
Coal mining
The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...
is one of America's largest and most influential industries. Goodell suggests that coal mining is deadly and environmentally destructive.
See also
- Burning the Future: Coal in AmericaBurning the Future: Coal in AmericaBurning the Future: Coal in America is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by David Novack. The film focuses on the impacts of mountaintop mining in the Appalachians, where mountain ridges are scraped away by heavy machinery to access coal seams below, a process that is cheaper and faster...
- List of books about coal mining
- Mountain Top RemovalMountain Top Removal (film)Mountain Top Removal is a 2007 documentary film directed by Michael O'Connell. The film explores how Mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia has affected local communities...
External links
- "Black Cloud", book review in The New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Times Book ReviewThe New York Times Book Review is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York...
by Corey S. Powell, June 25, 2006 - Books, Articles, Movies, and Websites about Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining