A new statistic in the larger costs of an energy infrastructure dependent upon coal: Yesterday, the Government Accountability Office reported that in the first 8 and a half years of this decade alone, Kentucky and West Virginia allowed 4.9 billion cubic yards of mining waste to be be dumped in valleys near coal mines within their borders.
So-called “clean coal” technology wouldn’t do a thing to reduce that type of waste. They call it “excess spoil”.
