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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Coal in Your Stocking? Not the Worst Thing
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:02
	Publish Date:		2018-12-13 06:00:00
	Description:		With Christmas on the horizon, many of us are thinking about gift giving. In this month's installment of Field Notes , Susan Knight discusses the virtues of coal (just in case you get some in your stocking). Christmas is coming. Are you worried about what you might find in your stocking? I am hoping for chocolate and gummy bears, but a nice lump of coal might not be too bad, either. Coal burning is now considered an environmental scourge. But the phenomenon of coal itself is fascinating and in need of a public relations boost. Where did it come from? Why is there so much in West Virginia and Pennsylvania? Do our local bogs, and their accumulated peat – that’s P-E-A-T - have anything to do with coal? When I lead a bog tour, I get pretty excited about peat. When you stand on a bog, you are standing on peat which is dead and partly decomposed plant material that has been accumulating for many years. Plants in the bog grow all summer and then die but, instead of decomposing as most dead
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