In the U.S., a range of legislation and regulation at the federal and state levels governs miner safety, coal mine reclamation, coal plant siting, thermal pollution
from coal plant cooling, coal combustion emissions, and disposal of coal waste.
Not exact matches
Sulfate aerosols
from coal plants = a major
cooling forcing.
The observed
cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s is attributed to SO2 (
from coal fired power
plants).
There were a few papers published at that time on the issue of particle pollution (mostly
from coal plants which did not yet have scrubbers) blocking out some of the incoming sunlight and exerting a short - term
cooling influence.
Warming
from decade to decade can also be affected by human factors such as variations in the emissions,
from coal - fired power
plants and other pollution sources, of greenhouse gases and of aerosols (airborne particles that can have both warming and
cooling effects).
Steam coming out of
cooling towers
from coal fired power
plants being portrayed as pollution is another fabrication to make emissions appear as pollution.