The Single Largest air Polluter in the United States!

Coal Burning to Create Electric power.
At a coal plant they produce Electric power through the act of combusting coal.
The object of Coal burning is to produce Thermal energy into Mechanical energy with the final product being electric energy.
Fossil Fuel produces over 50% of Americas Electricity but the production of Electric power in this way is very damaging to our environment.
Burning coal produces:
Smog
Acid Rain
Global Worming
Toxic Air Emissions
Soot
World Wide the production of Energy through burning Coal produces is about40%. Can you imagine how much damage this is causing to our environment.
Advantages:
Lots of energy can be produced with low costs.
They are very a very efficient way of producing our energy other than the pollution that is emitted into our environment.
Disadvantage's:
Pollution
Global warning due to emission of tons of carbon dioxide
To produce enough energy for so many people large amounts of coal need to be mined which can be dangerous and tedious.

Resources:
www.answers.com
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/c01.html
http://home.clara.net/darvill/altenerg/fossil.htm