This highly - destructive mining for coal not only destroys entire mountains and related ecosystems, but buries streams, contaminates watersheds and presents
significant public health hazards.
Not exact matches
Aside from the
significant climate benefits and long - term cost savings shown by this study, landfills which capture methane are safer and less of a
public health hazard than those which do not.
Currently, there are 309 high and
significant hazard coal ash dams that could easily fail and cause environmental, economic and
public health damage on the scale of the Kingston disaster.