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jaden hendren slippery slope

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If we put strict gun laws people won’t be able to protect themselves. Terrorists have guns and come to the country. People don’t have guns to defend themselves. Therefore the country gets taken over.

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If you don’t attend a good college, you won’t get a good job.

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Some people are crazy before drugs therefore drugs don’t make people crazy

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Jordan Cook

If u buy a gun your gonna shoot someone cause u have a gun.

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https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/coal/coal-and-the-environment.php

How mining coal can cause there to be acid rain is a slippery slope

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Coal is an abundant fuel source that is relatively inexpensive to produce and convert to useful energy. However, producing and using coal affects the environment.

Effects of coal mining

Surface mines (sometimes called strip mines) were the source of about 62% of the coal mined in the United States in 2021. These mining operations remove the soil and rock above coal deposits, or seams. The largest surface mines in the United States are in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, where coal deposits are close to the surface and are up to 70 feet thick.

Mountaintop removal and valley fill mining has affected large areas of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia and Kentucky. In this form of coal extraction, the tops of mountains are removed using explosives. This technique changes the landscape, and streams are sometimes covered with rock and dirt. The water draining from these filled valleys may contain pollutants that can harm aquatic wildlife downstream. Although mountaintop mining has existed since the 1970s, its use became more widespread and controversial beginning in the 1990s.

U.S. laws require that dust and water runoff from areas affected by coal mining operations must be controlled, and the area must be reclaimed close to its original condition.

Underground mines generally affect the landscape less than surface mines. However, the ground above mine tunnels can collapse, and acidic water can drain from abandoned underground mines.

Methane gas that occurs in coal deposits can explode if it concentrates in underground mines. This coalbed methane must be vented out of mines to make mines safer places to work. In 2020, methane emissions from coal mining and abandoned coal mines accounted for about 7% of total U.S. methane emissions and about 1% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (based on global warming potential). Some mines capture and use or sell the coalbed methane extracted from mines.

Emissions from burning coal

Sulfur dioxide (SO₂), which contributes to acid rain and respiratory illnesses

Nitrogen oxides (NOx), which contribute to smog and respiratory illnesses

Particulates, which contribute to smog, haze, and respiratory illnesses and lung disease

Carbon dioxide (CO₂), which is the primary greenhouse gas produced from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas)

Mercury and other heavy metals, which have been linked to both neurological and developmental damage in humans and other animals

Fly ash and bottom ash, which are residues created when power plants burn coal

The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates (as of October 2022) that in 2021, CO ₂ emissions from burning coal for energy accounted for about 20% of total U.S. energy-related CO ₂ emissions and for nearly 60% of total CO ₂ emissions from the electric power sector.

In the past, fly ash was released into the air through the smokestack, but laws now require that most emissions of fly ash be captured by pollution control devices. In the United States, fly ash and bottom ash are generally stored near power plants or placed in landfills. Pollution leaching from coal ash storage and landfills into groundwater and several large impoundments of coal ash that ruptured are environmental concerns.

Reducing the environmental effects of coal use

The Clean Air Act and The Clean Water Act require industries to reduce pollutants released into the air and water.

The coal industry has found several ways to reduce sulfur and other impurities from coal. The industry has also found more effective ways of cleaning coal after it is mined, and some coal consumers use low sulfur coal.

Power plants use flue gas desulfurization equipment, also known as scrubbers, to clean sulfur from the smoke before it leaves their smokestacks. In addition, the coal industry and the U.S. government have cooperated to develop technologies that can remove impurities from coal or that can make coal more energy efficient, which reduces the amount of coal that is burned per unit of useful energy produced.

Equipment intended mainly to reduce SO ₂, NOx, and particulate matter can also be used to reduce mercury emissions from some types of coal. Scientists are also working on new ways to reduce mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants.

Research is underway to address emissions of CO ₂ from coal combustion. One method is carbon capture, which separates CO ₂ from emissions sources and recovers it in a concentrated stream. The CO ₂ can then be injected underground for permanent storage, or sequestration.

Reuse and recycling can also reduce the environmental effects of coal production and use. Land that was previously used for coal mining can be reclaimed and used for airports, landfills, and golf courses. Waste products captured by scrubbers can be used to produce products such as cement and synthetic gypsum for wallboard.
Last updated: November 16, 2022

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Coal and the environment - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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Environmental issues, effects, benefits, and impacts of producing and using coal for energy.

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Owning a computer is useful because computers can be used a lot.

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If you don’t do your homework, you’ll fail the class. If you fail this class, you won’t graduate from school. If you don’t graduate, you won’t get into college.If you don’t attend a good college, you won’t get a good job. If you don’t get a good job, you’ll be poor and homeless. You don’t want to be poor and homeless, do you?

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How can you argue your case for vegetarianism when you are enjoying that steak?

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this is very slippery because recycling doesn’t actually cause more crime

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It’s an either or because I would rather die under Taliban bullet rather the planes.

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If we ban cell phones, it will lead to nuclear war.

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Appeal to Ignorance argues that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false. Aleins are real because they havent been proven false - caleb Brock