There is what clean coal does for you. To get an idea of the scale of destruction. The rocks at the bottom of the valley that look sort of big are very large. Some of them are the size of a car. There is a rock truck on the top of the mountain that can't be seen at the resolution the picture is uploaded. It is one of those huge trucks that the sidewall of the tire is the height of a full size truck and it can't be seen in the picture it is so far away.
That valley used to be about a mile longer than it is now and I remember a huge rock on the top of the mountain that used to be back there that was called Indian rock. It had really old Indian carvings on it as well as random people carving their names on it. Earliest date I can remember seeing was 1820. The day the permit was granted they sent a dozer to the mountain and destroyed everything, all natural rock outcroppings that are supposedly protected as well as the historic stuff like Indian rock and indian/normal graveyards. They do things like this that way nobody bothers protesting the permit since everything is already destroyed.
So I figure the carbon, mercury, and radiation being dumped into the atmosphere is nothing compared to the land being destroyed locally here as well as the sludge ponds that they fill up and they always 'accidentally' spill when they are full. The fines are cheap(if they have to pay them) compared to the cost of proper disposal of the large volume of incredibly toxic waste in those sludge ponds.