As an example of coal's impact consider this: continued construction of coal-fired power plants will raise atmospheric carbon dioxide to a level at least approaching 500 ppm (parts per million).
The Žacléř coalfield in the western part of the Intra-Sudetic Basin is an example of coal accumulation in an alluvial valley deposited under a long-term (~ 3 m.y).
And another example of coal's corruption comes from Indiana, where Duke Energy is under investigation because "(a) top attorney in the Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission took a job with Duke, which he appears to have negotiated at the same time he was overseeing decisions about Duke's new power plant".
In one of the most glaring examples of exiting coal at any cost, Brazil's Vale, sold a mothballed coalmine in Australia to a local operator for A$1.
The US provides the most visible example of the coal industry's decline.
Goode gives the example of former coal yard Camley Street, which is now a small nature reserve in the middle of King's Cross after a campaign backed by Ken Livingstone and many others stopped it being turned into a coach park.
Taking the example of hard coal, Table 3 shows that overburden may vary greatly depending on the country.
At the height of the coal crisis, for example, when stocks of coal rose in Belgium, West Germany, and France, Italy nonetheless continued to buy cheap supplies from the United States.
In 1991, for example, a group of coal utilities devised an advertising and public relations campaign that would also recruit scientists to "reposition global warming as theory (not fact)".
In the case of generic goods (any goods within a class rather than specifically designated goods; for example, 10 tons of coal), ownership cannot pass to the buyer until the seller has specified those goods which he intends to deliver (by transferring 10 tons of coal to a carrier for transportation to the buyer).
