News tagged with coal mines
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Excuse me! Lobby wins on burps
Jun 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- One contributor to global warming - bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants - is being left out of efforts by the Obama administration and House Democrats to limit greenhouse ...
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Demonstration turns methane gas to energy
Apr 28, 2007 |
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The United States is testing new technology that can convert methane from coal mines into clean energy.
US coal peak production: Point and counterpoint
Oct 20, 2009 |
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A timely debate on "United States Coal Peak Production" will enliven the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Oregon, today. Highly regarded experts David B. Rutledge of the California Institute ...
Coal-mining hazard resembles explosive volcanic eruption, study shows
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Worldwide, thousands of workers die every year from mining accidents, and instantaneous coal outbursts in underground mines are among the major killers. But although scientists have been investigating coal outbursts for more ...
Appalachian history gives new perspective of how workers view jobs
Feb 23, 2009 |
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A preacher addresses a group of men in a town church in eastern Kentucky, but this gathering is not to hear a sermon. Instead, it is a meeting of a coal miners' union. By studying coal miners and farmers during the early ...
New German coal power plant to capture CO2
Jul 03, 2005 |
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New Swedish technology to capture and store waste carbon dioxide will be used to build a new German coal-fired power plant.
Building a base for honeybees
Sep 15, 2009 |
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On a recent muggy morning, Tammy Horn used a smoker to puff aromatic drafts into wooden beehives beneath a locust tree, then carefully removed the top of a hive.
Mine Collapse Was the Quake, not Vice Versa
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2007 |
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Ambiguous, preliminary evidence indicates that a coal mine cave-in that trapped six miners early Monday in Utah generated seismic waves that were recorded as a magnitude-3.9 earthquake, according to the University of Utah ...
Study advises Chinese government to change fuel in millions of households
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Scientists in China are recommending that the Chinese government consider phasing out the direct burning of traditional chunks of coal in millions of households. It suggests that the government substitute ...
Greenhouse gas burial
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2007 |
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Deep coal seams that are not commercially viable for coal production could be used for permanent underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by human activities, thus avoiding atmospheric release, according to two stu ...
Coal ash spill reveals risks, lapses in waste regulation
Jan 08, 2009 |
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The coal ash spill in Tennessee last month is putting a spotlight on whether the ash from 450 other power plants around the country could be contaminating the nation's drinking water supplies.
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