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Coal Reports and Fact Sheets
 Factsheet: Rural Utilities Service Campaign & Government-Funded Global Warming
At the same time Congress is starting to seriously debate global warming, it is continuing to fund a fleet of new, federally-sponsored coal-fired power plants that would be the largest new source of global warming pollution in America. Find out more about the Rural Utilities Service and how this path weds us to dirty old coal technology.
Factsheet: Liquid Coal: A Bad Deal for Global Warming
Although its proponents claim that liquid coal is a cure-all to our nation's energy problems, the truth is that liquid coal is plagued with economical and environmental downsides from the time coal is mined until long after the liquid is burned. Find out more.
Report: The Dirty Truth about Coal
Coal is one of the most polluting sources of energy available, jeopardizing our health and our environment. Using coal for electricity scars lungs, tears up the land, pollutes water, devastates communities, and makes global warming worse. Learn about the damage coal does to land, air, water, and people in our in-depth report.
Fact Sheet: The Dirty Truth about Coal
Conceived as a slimmed down version of our popular coal report, this four-page fact sheet presents the main arguments and statistics in a shortened format.
Other Resources
The Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program is working with activists around the country to champion clean energy in the face of this unprecedented rush to build new coal plants. The Environmental Law Program also provides legal and technical resources for stopping the coal rush
 CARMA: Compare global warming pollution coming from different kinds of power plants all over the world and see which companies have the biggest carbon footprint. To put these numbers in perspective, just one ton of global warming causing carbon dioxide is enough to fill a swimming pool approximately 33ft wide, 82 feet long and 7 feet deep.
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