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11 Appalachian Nat. Resources L.J. 1 (2017-2018)
The Dark Side of the Coal Industry on Seafood: What We Must Do Now

handle is hein.journals/anrlj11 and id is 7 raw text is: THE DARK SIDE OF THE COAL INDUSTRY ON SEAFOOD: WHAT WE MUST DO NOW Christian Nwaoparat I. INTRODUCTION Make no mistake! The coal industry has powered civilization for many years and made the Western Hemisphere an incubator for modern discoveries. Without the coal industry, perhaps the American renaissance and scientific revolution would have been nonexistent. For over a hundred years, coal has met almost half of the increase in global energy.' Coal has generated electricity, powered manufacturing plants, fired the engines of transportation, such as locomotives and ships, and fueled endless achievements. However, there is also a dark side to the coal industry. Industrial coal-fired power plants have caused environmental harm with their imprudent and avaricious actions. For instance, the 1970s ushered in a period of reckless atmospheric pollution when industrial smog from coal-fired power plants routinely and dangerously engulfed the skies.2 During the pre-smog era in the 1960s, unregulated activities by power plants caused disastrous ecological impacts and environmental deg- * Christian Nwaopara is an Attorney in New Jersey. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree (with emphasis in Natural Resources Law) from the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia. Prior to law school, Mr. Nwaopara worked in the IT industry designing computer systems. He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Marymount University in Virginia. In publishing this article, Mr. Nwaopara believes that it can serve both as an informational literature to consumers and as a guide to legislators in the promulgation of sound regulations for protection against mercury poisoning in seafood. 1. World Energy Outlook 2011, IEA, https://www.iea.org/Textbase/npsum/ weo2011 sum.pdf. 2. Denis Binder, Perspectives on Forty years of Environmental Law, 143(1) GEOWASH. J. ENERGY & ENVTL. L. (2012); Bernard J. Nebel and Richard T. Wright, Environmental Science: The Way the World Works (2000), http:// www.pollutionissues.com/Fo-Hi/History.html#ixzz3Hfdu3feE. This event together with the rise of smog in the 1970s, the Union Oil blowout in California, and the cataloging of pre-smog environmental abasements by Rachel Carson in the landmark book - Silent Spring - precipitated numerous environmental reforms, including the institutionalization of the Environmental Protection Agency. See also Michael Rotman, Cuyahoga River Fire, CLEVELAND HISTORICAL, http://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/ 63#.VI8lmO1MuM8 (last visited January 1, 2015) (Cleveland became a symbol of environmental degradation resulting in its mayor testifying before Congress for greater regulation of pollution). 1

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