The field of Safety Science and Technology is the most challenging and hot topic among all branches of science. This field is also quite interdisciplinary in character.
This is an interesting article about a group of scientists who believe that the U.S. could eliminate coal emissions within 20 years through a combination of penalties on coal emissions and investments in wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and 3rd generation nuclear power plants.
Through the early 19th to mid-20th century, coal mining was the industrial engine of downstate Illinois. Workers organized under the banner of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) to win safe working conditions and better pay.
P. Volyan''ski. Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves, 20 (5):
500-506(September 1984)Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 29–35,
September–October, 1984..