The United States coal supply is important to energy planning and policy-making. Current data on the magnitude of … geologically, environmentally, economically, socially, and legally accessible coal reserves are of insufficient quality to guide … policy-making and public and private decisions, though data are often presented for use in policy and energy analysis. Coal …

In 2009 the global coal market witnessed one of the most dramatic realignments it has ever seen – China, long a net … exporter of coal, suddenly imported a record-smashing 126 Mt tons (103 Mt net). This inversion of China's role in global coal … markets meant that Chinese imports accounted for nearly 15% of all globally traded coal, and China became the focal point of …

This article reviews evidence for the public health impacts of coal across the extraction, processing, use, and waste … disposal continuum. Surface coal mining and processing impose public health risks on residential communities through air and … water pollution. Burning coal in power plants emits more nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and heavy …

was almost entirely dependent on imports of coal, and where a long coastline made imports, largely from the UK, cheap and … available. Towards the end of the First World War, however, and well into the 1920s, coal imports were cut off or difficult to … peat fields in the wake of the coal shortage. …