Coal-mining region deposits include both lignite (brown coal) and black coal. The premier producing areas for Australian coal are the Bowen Basin in the state of Queensland, the Hunter Region in the state of New South Wales, and the Latrobe Valley in the state of Victoria. China is currently the world's largest coal miner, and it is also the largest consumer of coal in the world. China’s coal output has continued to increase and its production capacity has expanded at an unprecedented rate, with an annual increase in production of 200 million tonnes on average. In 2012, the total output of coal
A Scientific Support for Darwinism case, as well as announce the results in a press release. The petition was not completed sufficiently early to submit it as part of an "amicus curae" brief for the Dover case. However, if the case was to go to the US Supreme Court, the petition could have been submitted as an "amicus" brief at that time. R. Joe Brandon emphasized that this "Four Day Petition" did not mean that scientific issues are settled by majority vote. What Brandon maintains is that this is an indication of the level of scientific consensus that accepts evolution as a viable established scientific