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Re:An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners by gruez on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @08:57AM (#18715596)
>There was a wave of flue gas gypsum emitting acidic gasses around 2009, eating through copper plumbing and wiring. This was in Florida.

sounds like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_drywall rather than clean coal

Re:An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners by jlj on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:11PM (#18720834)
My point was that clean coal can mean a lot of things and sometimes making one part of a product lifecycle "green" just passes the problem down the supply chain.

In this case, scrubbing the flue gasses and recycling the coal ash resulted in toxic drywall. This isn't to say all drywall is toxic but it illustrates one illusion of something being clean or green.