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Research Examines Health Impact of Mining -- Illness, Premature Deaths Cost Appalachia Billions
Date:6/26/2009

"We know that in West Virginia we have high rates of poverty and illness, and we've been led to believe by government and industry that the coal companies help by creating jobs. But that's not true. Premature mortality is strongly linked to socioeconomic conditions where people live, and the evidence is that those areas of West Virginia that do not have coal do better. They develop economic alternatives."

The authors analyzed more than a quarter century of economic and health data in Appalachia coupled with economists' assessments of the coal industry's economic impacts. Hendryx and Ahern compared those assessments with the standard the federal government assigns - the Value of Statistical Life (VSL) - to draw the conclusion that coal mining is a drag rather than a boon to the Appalachian economy.

"VSL is a tool to try to help make policy decisions," Hendryx explained. "It's not the actual value of a real human being. It's a way to estimate how society values investments to protect life."

West Virginia has approximately 20,000 coal miners, down from a high of 130,000 miners in 1940, while the number of tons of coal mined has increased.

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