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"Consol Energy and Arch Resources Strike Merger Deal to Create $5 Billion Coal Mining Giant" - (August 21, 2024)
"Arch and Consol to Combine Into $5.2 Billion Coal Giant: Arch Shareholders Would Receive 1.326 Shares of Consol Stock for
Each Arch Share They Own" - Wall Street Journal (August 21, 2024)
"Coal transition: Raising fish and a Workforce With an Economic Development Grant" - State Impact Pennsylvania | NPR (April
10,2024)
"Coal Transition: Betting on Hydrogen With an Energy Technology Grant" - State Impact Pennsylvania | NPR (April 10,2024)
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| HOW COAL IS MADE |
Burning a lump of coal. How coal is intertwined in our moment by moment lives. We enjoy light at night, electricity for
unlimited needs, and heat and cooling home environment. And Maryland still uses coal reserves.
West Virginia is a land-locked state, second only to Wyoming mine coal producer. West Virginia mostly exports their coal
through Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland's ports to the world. When should Baltimore say, "No more."
What is the date and time? When do we stop being hypocrites? With the multi uses of coal, carcinogen family Polycyclic
Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHS), found in coal tar and coal ash, used as sealant and continues to be found due to reusing concrete/asphalt/cement.
[What is left from incineration that is toxic waste and Per and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS).]
"Coal: What Is Coal and How Does It Form?" - Geology
"Coal Characteristics" - Perdue University (2008)
"Structure and Properties of Coal" - Britannica
Chemical Analyses and Physical Properties of 12 Coal Samples from the Pocahontas Field, Tazewell County, Virginia, and McDowell
County, West Virginia - United States Department of the Interior (1982) [Book]
"According to industry’s own data, 94% of the coal ash ponds in the United States are unlined."
"Distribution of PAHs in Coal Ashes From the Thermal Power Plant and Fluidized Bed Combustion System; Estimation of Environmental
Risk of Ash Disposal" - Environmental Pollution - Pub Med (2020)
"What is coal tar and coal-tar pitch?
Coal tar is a byproduct of the coking, liquefaction or gasification of coal. Coal-tar pitch is the residue that remains after
the distillation of coal tar, that is, the thick black liquid remaining after various oils are removed from coal tar for use
in the manufacture of industrial and consumer products. Coal-tar pitch is separated, or "refined", into 12 grades of viscosity.
The most viscous grade, RT-12, is used in coal-tar-based sealcoat. The primary use of coal-tar pitch is in electrode manufacturing
for the aluminum industry and for steel arc furnaces.
What are PAHs?
PAHs are a group of chemicals created by heating or burning material that contains carbon. There are many sources of PAHs
to the environment, representing a wide range of PAHs concentrations, including asphalt (2-9 milligrams per kilogram, or mg/kg),
tire particles (84 mg/kg), used motor oil (730 mg/kg), and coal-tar-based sealcoat (34,000-202,000 mg/kg). PAHs cause cancer,
mutations, birth defects, and/or death in fish, wildlife, and invertebrates. Several PAHs are photoactivated, meaning that
their toxic effects are greatly intensified when exposed to sunlight. The EPA has classified seven PAHs as probable human
carcinogens, and 16 PAHs as Priority Pollutants."
THE FOREVER CHEMICALS: PAHS & PFAS
BALTIMORE
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| "ONE YEAR LATER: A SOUTH BALTIMORE COMMUNITY'S QUEST FOR NO MORE COAL" - WYPR 2022 |
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| INCINERATOR PROTEST - BALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOOD CURTIS BAY |
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| PLEASE VIEW WHAT IS AVAILABLE ~ COMING SOON |
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MARYLAND
Port of Baltimore - Maryland Manual
Bowleys Quarters: "RAW: Crews Implode Former C.P. Crane Power Plant in Baltimore County": Morning August 19th, 2022 Crews
Decommissioned C.P. Crane power plant in Bowleys Quarters in a planned implosion. Uncut Version
"Maryland: 19 miles southeast of Washington, D.C., at the Brandywine landfill in Prince George’s County, ash from three
NRG coal plants has contaminated groundwater with unsafe levels of at least eight pollutants, including lithium at more than
200 times above safe levels, and molybdenum (which can damage the kidney and liver) at more than 100 times higher than safe
levels. The contaminated groundwater at this site is now feeding into and polluting local streams. ....
The researchers of this report could not determine the safety of drinking water near the coal ash dumps analyzed in
this study because power companies are not required to test private drinking water wells. However, the report contains
examples of several well-documented instances of residential tap water contaminated by coal ash. For example: ....
At a coal ash landfill in Gambrills, Maryland, ash dumped in an old sand and gravel quarry caused unsafe levels of
arsenic, beryllium, lithium, and other pollutants in multiple residential wells. Constellation Energy settled a lawsuit
with impacted residents for $54 million.
Additional examples of contamination of residential drinking water outlined in the report are in Indiana, Illinois, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin and North Carolina."
"Moving Maryland Past Dirty Coal" - Chesapeake Climate Action Network [Needs updating]
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