How many coal plants are in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area?
Answer:
There are 13 coal power plants near Pittsburgh and a total of 28 in the entire state of Pennsylvania.
Fourteen of the 18 waste coal plants in the United States are in Pennsylvania.
Nationally, waste coal has an average of 60% of the BTU value (British Thermal Units, a unit of energy) of normal coals. It can take up to twice as much waste coal to produce the same amount of electricity. This means that -- in most places -- waste coal burners can only be economically built where huge volumes of waste coal exist.
Effects of coal Power plants on Pittsburgh, PA:
Deaths 563 per Year
Heart Attacks 990 per Year
Lung Cancer Deaths 62 per Year
Asthma Attacks 9,870 per Year
Hospital Admissions 506 per Year
Chronic Bronchitis 305 per Year
Asthma ER Visits 256 per Year
I live in Pitsburgh and there are none but there are like 3 in pennsylvaina.
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