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New Mexico
- The combined direct and indirect contributions of the coal industry to New Mexico's economy are more than $1 billion.
- Using more than 15 million tons, New Mexico ranks 24th in coal use.
- Federally owned lands in New Mexico produced more than 6 million tons of coal in 1997.
- The Colorado Plateau Region (Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico) has about 40 active coal mines.
- New Mexico employs more than 1,600 miners.
- New Mexico distributes more than 28 million tons of coal each year.
- New Mexico has one underground mine and four surface mines.
- About 86% of the electricity used in New Mexico is produced by coal.
- New Mexico produces about 3% of the nation's coal supply.
- New Mexico has four coal-fired power plants.
Sources:
- Coal Today, page 21
- Coal Today, page 29
- http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/coal/
FS145-99/index.html
- http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/energy/coal/
FS145-99/index.html
- http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/statepro/
imagemap/nm1p1.html
- http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/statepro/
imagemap/nm1p1.html
- http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/cia/
html/tbl03p01p1.html
- http://www.epa.gov/air/clearskies/state/nm.html
- http://www.epa.gov/air/clearskies/state/nm.html
- http://www.catf.us/publications/fact_sheets/
children_at_risk/New_Mexico_Kids_Facts.pdf
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