The Silent Epidemic
Lockwood, Alan H. We will not find ¿exposure to burning coal¿ listed as the cause of death on a single death certificate, but tens of thousands of deaths from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes, and other illnesses are clearly linked to coal-derived pollution. As politicians and advertising campaigns extol the virtues of ¿clean coal, ¿ the dirty secret is that coal kills. In The Silent Epidemic, Alan Lockwood, a p...