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Although petroleum products make life easier, finding, producing, and moving crude oil may have negative effects on the environment. Technological advances in exploration, production, and transportation of oil and enforcement of safety and environmental laws and regulations help to avoid and reduce these effects.

7 Reasons why nuclear power is bad for the environment and .. Dec 11, 2009 · M. 'Niki' Fears, Environmental News Examiner. A passionate and prolific writer, Niki Fears has been a word weaver since her adolescence. She refined .

Jul 05, 2011· From the "it's an ill wind that blows no good department" comes a report that highsulphur coal is actually good for the environment. Puzzled global warming enthusiasts have been perplexed about why global temperatures haven#8217;t cooperated by rising over the past 10 years.

Bad (worse than coal) wood. Not all types of biomass are good for the climate. In the cold northern forests of Canada it is usually lower carbon to leave coarse forest residue or trees killed by beetles to rot, because this happens slowly. Biomass from sources like this produces emissions higher than natural gas, though still lower than coal.

Power plants burn fossil fuels. Coalfired plants, even with the most modern technology using lowsulfur coal, are the single most significant source of acid rain, which has left hundreds of lakes across New York and New England unable to sustain life. Acid rain is also causing profound changes in forest ecology.

"Clean coal" technology is being developed to remove harmful materials before they can affect the environment, and to make it more energyefficient so less coal is burned. The coal industry also restores mined land to or prepares it for more productive uses once surface mining is done.

environmental problems with coal, oil, and gas Over the past quarter century, we have come to realize that there is more to life than material goods and services, that "some of the best things in life are free."

Feb 23, 2017· To be sure, there's very little room for growth: coal already meets about 1/3 of US energy needs. The balance is mostly oil, gas, and hydroelectric. In order for coal to grow significantly, we'd shrink the oil and gas industry.and they're not going to go willingly.

Sep 12, 2013· Expanding coal exports is bad news for Australia and the world ... Expanding coal exports is bad news for Australia and the world ... Our coal exports are causing massive environmental, social and ...

Strip Mining of Coal. Coal is mined by strip and underground mining. Strip mining is more harmful as larger tracts of land is affected, but is favored by the industry as it is cheaper reports Greenpeace. So 40% of the world's coal is obtained by strip mining.

Electronics. Old electronics dumped into landfills can leach toxins such as lead, mercury and lithium into the environment. Electronics account for 2 percent to 5 percent of the trash that reaches American landfills every year, according to GreenCitizen, a Californiabased company that works to reduce electronic waste.

Mar 15, 2016· Dirtier air is linked to higher hospital admission rates and higher death rates for asthmatics. It worsens the health of people suffering from cardiac or pulmonary disease. And warmer temperatures also significantly increase airborne pollen, which is bad news for those who suffer from hay fever and other allergies.

Apr 10, 2012· The Total leak is a reminder that natural gas — in the wrong place — can do very real damage to the environment, even if it does so invisibly. That might sound surprising because natural gas has been hyped as the clean fossil fuel, a replacement for coal power that's better for the atmosphere.

Contour Mining. Contour mining makes cuts on the slope where the coal seam is located, to remove first the overburden and then the coal itself. Overburden from adjacent cuts is used to fill previous cuts. The operator continues making cuts until the ratio of overburden to coal becomes uneconomical.

Jun 26, 2014· Leaky Methane Makes Natural Gas Bad for Global Warming. Gas emits about half as much carbon dioxide as coal in the power plant, so the government has promoted gas as a transition fuel to a postcarbon future. The fine print, however, is that natural gas may be as detrimental to the climate as coal in many ways.

John Hanger: There is no perfect energy source that has no environmental impact and is lowcost. Natural gas is far better than coal or oil