Supplemental Resources
Helpful coal websites
- Lesson Plan - Generating Electricity from Coal
- Glossary - from the American Coal Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy, database of coal power plants in the United States
- America's Power - The Facts
- Classification and Rank of Coal
- Coal Rank
- Coal and the Environment: Land and Air
- What is Your State's Role in Coal?: being updated
- Coal Use and the Environment
- Coal Mining and the Environment
- World Recoverable Coal Reserves 2002
- Fast Facts About Coal
- Coal's Journey
- Coal Prices 1949-2008
- Clean Coal Technologies
- Centralia, Pennsylvania
- In Google Earth, power plant emissions from CARMA: Center for Global Development, Carbon Monitoring for Action
Helpful Coal Documents
Coal Maps
- Coal reserves in the United States
- Electric power sector coal consumption
- Coal reserves by sulfur content
- Ohio River Basin coal-fired power plants
- Late Carboniferous great coal swamps map
- US coal resources
- US natural gas pipeline infrastructure
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Timeline of Coal in the United States | 77 KB |
Coal - A Complex Natural Resource | 4.2 MB |
Coal in PA Handbook | 1.8 MB |
Composition of Coal | 5.4 MB |
Video - How long does it take for coal to ignite?
View this video by the TESSE graduate fellows - can you guess which piece of coal will ignite first, and why?
Coal video: MOV file
Organization Websites
A list of organizations from the American Coal Foundation
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: ACCCE's website America's Power