Coal: Clean Energy or Silent Killer?

There are hundreds of coal burning power plants across the United States. Nearly 52% of the energy generated for the United States is produced from coal burning power plants, while only 14.8% is produced from nuclear energy. Our government initially liked the idea of so-called clean energy from nuclear plants, but once concerns grew over potential radiation, accidents, and the release of nuclear waste they decided to look elsewhere for our main source of energy. Since the United States is riddles with coal, they found this to be a good and supposed clean source of fuel. Because of lack of research on what happens to coal when it is burned, it has unfortunately been the cause of many health problem and deaths in the US, along with having a role in global warming.