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density (2000): 9,378 persons per square mile White persons, percent (2006): 28.4% Black persons, percent (2006): 56.5% Persons below poverty, percent

tons of coal from abroad in 2008. Alabama spent the most ($489 million), while Massachusetts obtained the highest share of its coal from foreign sources

generating capacity came from natural gas, 15.5% from fuel oil, and 11.5% from hydroelectric dams. There was no coal mining in Massachusetts in 2006. There is

speaks of the multiple persons he knows who are on respirators as he wonders if this is the result of years of ingesting the emissions from State Line. Mr. Leo

dissuade miners from encroaching on their property. In Pope County, Minnesota, a years-long confrontation over a large powerline extending from the North Dakota

coal from companies who practice mountaintop removal mining (MTR), though does not burn coal directly from MTR mines. The Colombian coal comes from el Cerrejon

percent of the electricity sold in Maine in 2008 came from coal – mostly from plants in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. Nine New England power

states: Massachusetts (#2, holding steady) ; Oregon (#3, up from #4); New York (#4, up from #5); Vermont (#5, up from #6); Washington (#6, up from #7); Rhode

2008, the Salem Harbor Station in Massachusetts burned 287,610 tons of coal from Colombia. The Colombian coal comes from el Cerrejon and la Loma mines. El

gathered from existing EPA data on coal ash and included locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Massachusetts, North

org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Order-Entering-Motion.pdf Order] from the US District Court in Massachusetts requiring Dominion to shut down all four units at the

gathered from existing EPA data on coal ash and included locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Massachusetts, North

the state's electric generating capacity comes from natural gas-fired power plants, and 24.8% comes from nuclear energy. No coal was mined in Connecticut

million from the state's RGGI revenues "to help balance the $10.7 billion state budget." RGGI proponents argued that the diversion of funds from the state's

revealed that the projected cost of new mercury-control scrubbers had increased from $250 million to $457 million. The scrubbers would reduce mercury emissions

commissioned the study with a $150,000 matching grant from the federal government, and Massachusetts-based Synapse Energy Economics Inc. itemized the health

contamination was found. The information was gathered from existing EPA data on coal ash as well as from studies by EarthJustice, the Environmental Integrity

total), Progress Energy produced 39.2% from natural gas, 28.3% from coal, 15.9% from oil, 15.7% from nuclear, and 0.8% from hydroelectricity. Progress Energy

in Market Square, where organizers from United Mountain Defense and Mountain Justice spoke about coal's impact from cradle to grave on communities in Appalachia

gathered from existing EPA data on coal ash and included locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Massachusetts, North