The environmental effects of coal use range from the poisoning of local rivers by acid mine drainage to the global problem of climate change caused by CO 2 (carbon dioxide) emissions. âClean coalâ technologies are expensive and are still unable to completely remove harmful. emissions from coal-fired power plants.ii Figure 1 illustrates the various impacts of coal-use on land. water and air. Figure 1: The impacts of coal use on land, water and air.
Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary. Executive Privilege. The privilege that allows the president and other high officials of the executive branch to keep certain communications private if disclosing those communications would disrupt the functions or decision-making processes of the executive branch.
A privilege is something that not everyone needs, but a right is the opposite. Given this distinction, an insidious dimension of the white-privilege argument emerges.hite privilege in South Africa has small-scale effects, such as preferential treatment for people who appear white in public, and large-scale effects, such as the over five-fold difference in average per-capita income for people identified as white or black.