Coal-burning power plants
Citizens Coal Council, Hoosier Environmental Council, Clean Air Task Force, Laid to Waste, March 2000. Available online at www.hecweb.org/ccw/LaidToWaste.pdf.
Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form EIA-767 (Steam-Electric Plant Operation and Design Report), US Department of Energy (DOE), 1991.
Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at www.ucsusa.org/energy/publication.cfm?publicationID=39.
Fuel supply
Coal mining
Citizens Coal Council, Mountaintop Removal Strip Mining, 2000. Available online at www.citizenscoalcouncil.org/mtr.htm.
Henry, Katherine, Coal Mining in the United States: SMCRA's Successful Blueprint, online at www.osmre.gov/kay1.txt.
National Mining Association, Mining Facts/About Coal, online at www.nma.org/coalfacts.html.
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Kentucky Coal Disaster information online at
www.tngreen.com/cleanenergy/energy/coal/KYdisaster/index.html
Coal transportation
Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at www.ucsusa.org//publication.cfm?publicationID=39.
US EPA, National Air Pollutant Emission Trends, 1900 - 1998, EPA-454/R-00-002, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, March 2000. Available online at www.epa.gov/ttnchie1/trends98/browse.html.
Coal storage
Citizens Coal Council, Hoosier Environmental Council, Clean Air Task Force, Laid to Waste, March 2000. Available online at www.catf.us/publications/reports/Laid_to_Waste.pdf.
Water use
Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at www.ucsusa.org/publication.cfm?publicationID=39.
Utility Data Institute (UDI). Power Statistics Database, 1995.
US EPA, Economic and Engineering Analyses of the Proposed Section 316(b) New Facility Rule, EPA-821-R-00-019, Office of Water, August 2000. Online at www.epa.gov/ostwater/316b/support/index.html.
US Geological Survey (USGS), Offstream Use, Available online at water.usgs.gov/watuse/pdf1995/pdf/summary.pdf.
Air pollution
Clean Air Network, America's Poisoned Power: Electricity & Pollution from Power Plants. Available online at www.cleanair.net/PowerPlants/EDPowerFS.pdf.
Clean Air Network, Fast Facts on Power Plants, April 2000. Available online at
www.cleanair.net/PowerPlants/PlantFastFact.PDF.
Mushak, Paul, Arsenic and Old Laws: A Scientific and Public Health Analysis of Arsenic Occurrence in Drinking Water, Its Health Effects, and EPA's Outdated Arsenic Tap Water Standard, Report prepared for the Natural Resources Defense Council, February 2000. Available online at www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/arsenic/aolinx.asp.
National Wildlife Federation. The Toll from Coal. Available online at www.cleanair.net/PowerPlants/Gen%20Harms.pdf.
Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at www.ucsusa.org/publication.cfm?publicationID=39.
Worldwatch Institute, Phasing Out Coal: Environmental Concerns, Subsidy Cuts Fuel Global Decline, press release. Available at www.worldwatch.org/alerts/990825.html.
Wastes generated
Solid waste
Citizens Coal Council, Hoosier Environmental Council, Clean Air Task Force, Laid to Waste, March 2000. Available online at www.hecweb.org/ccw/LaidToWaste.pdf.
Hopkins, W.A., C.L. Rowe, J.H. Roe, D.E. Scott, M.T. Mendonia, and J.D. Congdon, Ecotoxicological Impact of Coal Combustion Byproducts on Amphibians and Reptiles, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, presented at the Society for Environmental Toxicolgy and Chemstry, Abstract No. PMP009, 1999.
US EPA, Report to Congress: Wastes from the Combustion of Fossil Fuels, March 1999. Available online at www.epa.gov/epaoswer/other/fossil/volume_1.pdf.
Cooling water discharge
Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at www.ucsusa.org/publication.cfm?publicationID=39.
State of California Public Utilities Commission, San Diego Gas and Electric Company's Divesture of Electric Generating Assets: Environmental Review. Available online at
www.sdgedivest.com/chapters/04-04wat.htm.
US EPA, Economic and Engineering Analyses of the Proposed Section 316(b) New Facility Rule, EPA-821-R-00-019, Office of Water, August 2000. Online at www.epa.gov/ostwater/316b/support/index.html.
Waste heat
US Department of Energy (DOE), Vision 21: A Concept for Tomorrow's Pollution-Free Energy Plant, Available online at www.fe.doe.gov/cpower/vision21/vision21_sum.html.
Nogee, Alan, Steve Clemmer, Bentham Paulos, and Brent Haddad, Powerful Solutions, Union of Concerned Scientists, January 1999. Available online at www.ucsusa.org//publication.cfm?publicationID=39.
