UPDATE: Here's a link to download the entire Harvard report:
Full Cost Accounting for the Full Lifecycle of Coal. People and
the environment are paying the price while corporations reap the
profits. Today in Boston, on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise,
we hosted a preview of a remarkable study soon to be published,
authored by Dr. Paul Epstein, Director of Harvard Medical School
Center for Health and the Global Environment. Epstein and eleven
co-authors have complied a first of its kind “Full Cost
Accounting for the Life Cycle of Coal”, tracking the multiple
human health and environmental impacts of coal from mining to
transport to combustion in coal power plants and the waste
stream that results. The team used peer-reviewed studies already
in the literature to assign costs to the various impacts. The
study will be published shortly in the Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences. The Harvard paper estimates that “the life
cycle effects of coal and the waste stream generated are costing
the U.S. public a