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A Global Issue for Consideration: Bringing Coal Mining (Coal Mine Methane Technology) Back to the Future ©

By Henry Cooper

Oil and natural gas significantly reduced the usage of coal in home heating. This change caused the United States, and other developed countries to focus on the acquisition of oil and natural gas as cleaner burning technologies. An article published in Technology Review by MIT opines that Developing nations like China have continued to mine and burn coal at fairly high rates due to burgeoning population and industrial growth.

A recent quotation by the Unites Nations Economic Commission for …

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