The environmental price tag on a ton of mountaintop removal coal.
While several thousand square kilometers of land area have been subject to surface mining in the Central Appalachians, no reliable estimate exists for how much coal is produced per unit landscape disturbance. We provide this estimate using regional satellite-derived mine delineations and historical...
| Published in: | PLoS ONE |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3770658?pdf=render |