http://www.coaleducation.org/ky_coal_facts/types_of_mining.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jan/16/usa.paulharris

http://www.epa.gov/region3/mtntop/spruce1.html

http://www.epa.gov/region3/mtntop/index.htm#impacts

http://www.pp.msu.edu/content/power-day-in-life.html

http://www.pp.msu.edu/content/power-faq.html

"In an average year, the [MSU] power plant will generate 274 billion watt-hours of electricity while the boilers will consume 250,000 tons of coal, 340 million cubic feet of natural gas and 450 million gallons of water."

http://www.epa.gov/region3/mtntop/pdf/downstreameffects.pdf

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Existing_U.S._Coal_Plants

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/e7d3e5608bba2651852575d200590f23!OpenDocument