Helpful coal websites

• Lesson Plan - Generating Electricity from Coal
  
   
• Glossary - from the American Coal Foundation
  
   
• U.S. Department of Energy, database of coal power plants in the United States
• America's Power - The Facts
• Classification and Rank of Coal
• Coal Rank
• Coal and the Environment: Land and Air
• What is Your State's Role in Coal?: being updated
• Coal Use and the Environment
• Coal Mining and the Environment
• World Recoverable Coal Reserves 2002
• Fast Facts About Coal
• Coal's Journey
• Coal Prices 1949-2008
• Clean Coal Technologies
• Centralia, Pennsylvania
  
   
• In Google Earth, power plant emissions from CARMA: Center for Global Development, Carbon Monitoring for Action

Helpful Coal Documents

• Environmental Literacy Council - Coal

Coal Maps

• Coal reserves in the United States
• Electric power sector coal consumption
• Coal reserves by sulfur content
• Ohio River Basin coal-fired power plants
• Late Carboniferous great coal swamps map
• US coal resources
• US natural gas pipeline infrastructure

Map of Pennsylvania Coal

Video - How long does it take for coal to ignite?

View this video by the TESSE graduate fellows - can you guess which piece of coal will ignite first, and why?

Coal video: MOV file

Organization Websites

A list of organizations from the American Coal Foundation

American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity: ACCCE's website America's Power