"Additionally, the chair of the Citizen's Commission, Norman Williams, the Deputy Director of the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, called publicly and in testimony before the legislature for the outlawing of coal strip mining throughout the state. He testified that strip mining could not exist as a profit making industry unless it is allowed by the state to pass on the costs of environmental damage to the private landowner or the public."

This is the key point of coal, and really all forms of fossil fuel harvesting. The current U.S. (and India/China) regulatory environment inevitably passes the negative externalities of extracting and consuming the fuels onto the citizens of said countries. (if you factor in carbon, then the citizens of the world)