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Canary in a coal mine.
(UK) A canary in a coal mine is an early warning of danger.
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This is about ending coal mining pollution".
House Republicans have passed a series of bills that would block or reverse E.P.A. measures to control air, water and coal mining pollution.
"Obama has used his final weeks in office to press for new rules on coal mining pollution, offshore drilling and the venting of planet-warming methane -- all of which are likely to be challenged or repealed by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress".
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Brockway was visiting the Black Country town, scarred by years of coal mining and pollution from blast furnaces and factories, to see its notorious slums.
It has withheld permits for coal mines, tightened pollution controls for power plants that use coal, and is in the process of drafting regulations on greenhouse gases.
The following year, federal investigators from the Office of Surface Mining wrote that West Virginia had become so lax in its enforcement of coal-mining pollution regulations that "the consequences for violating the law, even when the violations are intentional, willful and blatant, are not significant enough to be a deterrent".
As it is true for virtually all forms of contamination, the threshold values of pollution from coal mining activities are those whose concentrations are capable of causing harmful effects on previously unaffected water uses (Utom et al. 2012).
Pollution from Coal mining poses a huge risk to the ecosystem and surrounding soil.
The major sources of air pollution in coal mining area include: drilling and blasting, loading and unloading of coal and overburden, movements of heavy vehicles on haul roads, dragline operations, crushing of coal in feeder breakers, presence of fire, exposed pit faces, wind erosion and exhaust of heavy earthmover machinery (Nair and Sinha 1987; Ghose and Majee 2007; Huertas et al. 2011).
This point is of importance, particularly since the inhalation of PNA in situations of air pollution or coal mining involves particulates, although of a different type.
Also, as the study was conducted in a heavy coal mining area in China, the pollution characteristics need to be taken account of in the designed questionnaires.
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