Environmental impacts of coal mining and utilization

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As coal is considered as a substitute for other fuels, more serious attention is being given to the environmental impacts of the whole coal fuel mining, transport, storage, combustion and conversion. This volume presents an up-to-date account of these environmental impacts and the recent developments to combat and control them. A feature of the book is the way in which it discusses not only the experience and developments in North America and Western Europe but also presents much information made available for this study on the developments in the socialist countries of Eastern Europe.