dirty coal
Polluting black rock
Dirty coal refers to coal with high sulfur, ash, or moisture content that produces more pollution when burned.
The phrase also functions as an environmental and political term contrasting coal generally with cleaner energy sources: The campaign targeted dirty coal plants.
Clean coal technologies attempt to reduce emissions, though critics argue the term is an oxymoron.
- smoke stacksTall industrial exhaust pipes
- Clean Air ActFederal pollution standards law
- thermal power plantsFacilities generating electricity from heat
- scrubbersEquipment removing pollutants
- air pollutionToxic atmospheric contamination
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