Environmental impact of the coal industry

Human Rights Watch has again drawn attention to the problem of air pollution in Bosnian cities. "Nine per cent of the country's deaths are due to air pollution and an estimated 3,300 people die prematurely every year as a result of exposure to ambient PM2.5 air pollution," an HRW report published on Monday says. 

The European Union needs to take tougher measures for 16 power plants in 5 Western Balkan countries because the carbon dioxide and microparticles it throws are responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 people each year, reports Dnevnik. 

In our country, coal power plants are being opened one after the other. Almost every day we say, "Agriculture has died; we import everything." To be able to understand the relationship between the two, let us look at how coal investments affect agriculture.