Quotes about Coal-fired Power plants from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Here is what has happened. coal-fired power plants release mercury into the atmosphere, and this settles in our oceans and rivers. Plants known as plankton absorb the mercury in the polluted water. Small fish then feed on the plankton. Then the larger fish eat the smaller fish that have eaten
the mercury-rich plants, accumulating mercury in their tissues. The older and larger the fish, the greater the potential for high mercury levels in their bodies, which is why I suggest that you stay away from big fish such as tuna and swordfish."- Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) |
 "Now, he wants the EPA to let coal-fired power plants treat their mercury pollution as "non-hazardous"
even though mercury threatens pregnant women and children. The Bush administration's ploy would allow coal-fired power plants to put more mercury into the air, where it rains down on lakes and oceans, is swallowed by fish, and could wind up on your plate . . . Guess who is praising this scheme? Coal power companies, who are big mercury polluters and big political contributors, too.
Coal-burning power plants send forty or more tons of mercury into the atmosphere every year."- Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
 "It isn't controlling mercury coming from coal-fired power plants, which is one of the major sources. And we have to be aggressive in demanding that mercury be controlled, just as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are controlled.
What we have now is not adequate. [The EPA's policy] needs to become much tighter, in order to protect kids' health."
Consider this: In 2005, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report indicated that one out of seventeen women of child-bearing age has elevated blood mercury levels."- Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "Arsenic: Pesticides, smog, tobacco smoke, a by-product of metal ore smelting and coal-fired power plants, wood preservatives in lumber and playgrounds, green pigment used in toys, curtains, carpets, colored chalk
?Platinum: Some dental gold, automobile exhaust
Below is a targeted program for detoxifying heavy metals, among the most difficult toxins to eliminate from the body."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "In the United States, coal-fired power plants alone spew about fifty tons of mercury into the air each year. Dry particles of mercury travel effortlessly in effluent clouds across the American landscape—migrating from coal-burning power plants in the Midwest to points often thousands of miles away, where they literally rain out of the sky in what environmentalists commonly refer to as "mercury polluted rainstorms." Once mercury particles shower to earth, they lace every acre, from forest floors to neighborhood parks to rippling ocean waves."- Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
| "The Bush administration's ploy would allow coal-fired power plants to put more mercury into the air, where it rains down on lakes and oceans, is swallowed by fish, and could wind up on your plate . . . Guess who is praising this scheme? Coal power companies, who are big mercury polluters and big political contributors, too.
Coal-burning power plants send forty or more tons of mercury into the atmosphere every year. During the 1990s, under the administration of President Bill Clinton, the EPA imposed rules that reduced mercury emissions from most other industries —except power plants." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "Mercury gets into water from two sources: natural (volcanos and the weathering of cinnabar-containing rock), and "anthropogenic," meaning the result of human activity—in this case, coal-fired power plants. In the United States, power plants are the leading source of mercury contamination and are responsible for about 40 percent of mercury emissions. In response to the 2004 advisory, the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group, and MoveOn.org, a group organizing grassroots opposition to the administration of President George W." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
 "A major cause of that pollution is China's continued reliance on aging coal-fired power plants, which generate 75 percent of the country's electricity, according to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Coal is also burnt to heat many private homes. Cars are the other leading cause of air pollution, and the situation may get much worse. According to an article on Chinadaily.com, Chinese officials expect to have 140 million cars on the road by 2020, seven times the number of cars now in China, and more cars than now exist in the United States (September 4, 2004)."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The Liu Centre for the Study of Global Issues is constructed from fly-ash concrete, a by-product of coal-fired power plants and an effective substitute for standard cement. Not only does the use of fly ash in construction put this waste product to use, it helps to reduce emissions by cement-manufacturing operations. The Vancouver Convention Centre: Canada's Largest Green Roof The Vancouver Convention Centre is being expanded to accommodate the media during the 201 o Olympics. The roof of the complex will feature a six-acre preserve of native coastal plants." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "Coal is linked to asthma. coal-fired power plants are chiefly responsible for acid rain. Perhaps these are prices that Americans will be willing to pay in order to enjoy high levels of electricity consumption in the future. It is certainly possible to clean up the emissions from coal-fired power plants, but it makes electricity more expensive, and the political will to clean up the industry may not be there in a more austere economy."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
 "Coal-fired power plants in China and other areas of Asia are not even equipped with rudimentary stack scrubbers. A few other industrial processes, including some paper mills and smelters, also produce SO2 (from the odor, people generally know where they are). Like the oxides of nitrogen, sulfur dioxide is a major contributor to acid rain and smog. Corrosive acids (such as sulfurous acid and sulfuric acid) formed in the air can rain down to cause massive damage to wildlife, vegetation, streams, rivers, and lakes."- Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) |
| "U.S. Congress and made to face angry politicians. Imagine the cigarette hearings of the 1990s, with an even angrier citizenry.
We could see international lawsuits from communities most affected by global warming (and least to blame for it), backed by the threat of economic sanctions from bigger powers. Inuit groups have already filed suit [see Polar Regions, p. 527] against the United States for causing the melting of Arctic lands; even if that lawsuit is thrown out, it won't be the last one filed." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
| "It is certainly possible to clean up the emissions from coal-fired power plants, but it makes electricity more expensive, and the political will to clean up the industry may not be there in a more austere economy. In any case, even if heavy metals and particulates are taken out of the emissions, coal will still produce large quantities of carbon dioxide, the chief suspect in global warming. In 2003, the Bush administration, in fact, eased pollution standards for the power industry.5
Coal mining is also very destructive to the landscape and habitats." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
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