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...headquarters is in White Plains, New York.Zamore also discounted nuclear energy’s role in decreasing fossil fuel pollution because uranium enrichment involves release of carbon dioxide. Scientific studies of nuclear fuel cycle carbon dioxide emissions show that they are between 0.5 percent and 4 percent of equivalent coal-fired emissions. So the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity clearly helps reduce the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And finally, Zamore’s account of the radiological emissions from nuclear plants during normal operations was misleading. In fact, the normal operation of a coal...
...cause seems to be a drying up of the Canadian wetlands where it breeds. The same may apply to the Canada warbler. The cerulean warbler, also in decline, is losing habitat not because of global warming but because of another human activity: the destruction of Appalachian mountaintop forests by coal-mining operations...
...these stories you may have read in yesterday?s New York Times: about Jeremy Feldbusch, a wounded veteran of the Iraq invasion. He came to Iraq from Blairsville, Pa. - coal mining country. A wrestler from age 5 to 18, he got a B.S. in biology from the University of Pittsburgh. Soon after arriving in Iraq he was injured. "We were told by his doctors that the piece of shrapnel had gone under his goggles," says Jeremy?s brother Shaun, "and basically played ping-pong in his head? and he had damage to both sides of his frontal lobe." One tangible...
...throughout his junior year at Pottsville Area High School in central Pennsylvania’s coal country, Steve Pilconis made all the right moves. The star wide receiver sent videotape of his games to football programs across the country. He waited patiently as programs returned interest. He watched as his older brother, Ryan, was recruited to play football at Harvard. But most of all, Pilconis let his junior season statistics speak for themselves: 27 catches, 704 yards, eight touchdowns...
...today, China, which recently became the world's fourth largest economy, has great significance both as a supplier of manufactured goods and a consumer of natural resources. The demand from China for raw materials has already resulted in higher equilibrium prices for many commodities, from coal to copper to palm oil. And if all goes well in India, which has many economic similarities to China 20 years ago, its economy will clock real GDP growth of more than 7% a year for the next decade, driving further price gains for commodities...