In the past, attention was paid to air pollution caused by emissions in the coal burning process however now more research is done to environmental degradation in terms of land pollution due to improper waste management. ... Runsheng LV and Yanyong Bo Ll in their paper examining groundwater pollution due to mining in china have stated that the ground water reaches only 65% of the water quality and this situation is fairly grim (Bo LI, pp 3) china there are about 4.5 billion tons of stockpiled wastes due to coal mining occupying 1700 waste dumps spread over 15000 hectares of land out of which 2...

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The atmospheric gases that produce the greenhouse effect include the naturally occurring substances water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3), as well as artificially produced chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). ... They regard environmentalists as having the underlying goal of restricting private property rights and the activities of business, and putting restraints on the free market (as in requiring companies to meet pollution standards, or preventing new construction in an area with an endangered species). ...

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