Coal Emissions Impact Prenatal Health

I’m no expert on matters automotive, but it seems to me coal power is kinda like one of those old Fiats: by the time you’ve fixed one part, another has already broken. From the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health comes word of the latest breakdown from the cost-convenient-but-ecologically-devestating fossil fuel: coal emissions make your kids dumb. 

From clouds of carcinogenic soot, to sulfate and nitrate emissions that create acid rain, to mercury dispersal that nearly quadruples the potential environmental damage from compact fluorescent bulbs, to the particulate emissions that gave Pittsburgh the worst air in America, coal has always managed to evade being a useful, clean energy source—and that’s even assuming that a viable carbon sequestration method can be found.

Its low cost and ready availability make coal too potentially useful a resource to not consider fully, but according the best available science, there’s simply no way to employ it as a sustainable energy solution.