Coal

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Broader Terms

fossil fuel energy

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• Coal Coal is a hard, black colored rock-like substance.
• What Is Coal? Coal is a fossil fuel created from the remains of plants that lived and died about 100 to 400 million years ago when parts of the earth were covered with huge swampy forests.
• If the coal seams are near the surface, the coal is extracted by strip mining.
• According to a 2006 report from the US Energy Information Administration, US power consumption from coal is expected to rise 1.
• Coal is mined in two coal fields; the Western Kentucky Coal Field and the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field.

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